The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-09
By HrNRY VANCE

the ridiculous to tho sublime.
 After having their feet on the travesty pedal for the first two games of the series. the Lookouts and Barons staged one of the pret- tiest games ever seen at Rtekwood Saturday afternoon, and the Barons won To.
 It was . pitchers battle in the truest sense of the word. Bates pitching for the Barons In way that completely befuddled and be- wildered the enemy held 'em to six widely scattered hits, Morris of the Lookouts, had wide-sweeping curve and a fast ball that held the Barons to five hits. These were not so widely scattered, however. single following a double In the fifth and this gave the locals their first series since Hector was bettle-fed infant canine.
 Now, the question naturally arises: How did the Barons keep from blowing up in the ninth Inning? There's an answer to 1t which is as simple as frying an egg, or parsing a verb on both sides. Red Bates is the answer.
 Red Struck 'Em All Out
 In other words, brethren and eistren, Red didn't give 'em chance to blow up. Red took the matter :n his own hands and nursed the ninth along to the end. Starting the ninth; he ambled to the mound. counted his outfiald and freckles to see that they were all there, patted his Adams apple gently on the back and started pitching as he had never pitched before.
 The first man in the ninth to face the eerise-roofed Mir. Bates, was Poppy Ripperton, best hitter on the Chattanooga club, and their clean up man. Red never batted an eye. Poppy never batted at all. Red was feeding him hook and Poppy took it, also line and sinkers. He was re- tired via. the strike-out route. Young MT. Windshield, also a good hitter. Wight to the contrary. notwith. standing, was the next man to the plate. Red was still as calm as the Dead Sea several thousand years after its demise, The same hook that had fooled Ripperton and the fastest smoke ball Red had shown this season shot across the plate, Wingfield also struck out.
 Doctor Neiderkorn was the next man up. and With two strikes on the Doctor, Red served him one that he lihed just back of the infield. Stewart should have caught the ball in his hip pocket. but he elected to let Silva take it, and when after a hard run Doctor silva had come under the ball he dropped it. In the battle of M. DIS. Doctor Neiderkorn had won out oyer Doctor Silva,
 Still. this bit of misfortune didn't phase Mir. Bates little bit. He gritted his teeth just bit harder and prepared to mow Wight down, His curve hall was breaking foot and Wight was breaking a back, with the inevitanle result that Wight also struck out.
 Red Pitched Ball
 Glory bel Here was baseball as she should be pitched. Here was something reminiscent of the good old days. Here was a man who had the nerve to stay with 1t to the last bitter whiff. It looked good. It sounds lot better, As Matty would say. Gosh, fellers, it reminds me of the good old days back In '06."
 And best of all it made long winning streak for Birmingham. The Barons have now hung up long string Of consecutive wins. Satur- days victory marked their second straight success. How zat for spurt- ing. Mawruss?
 The game was steeped tn sensa- tionalism from defensive stand point. Brilliant work by Kane, Clarke. Taylor and Neun featured for the Barons. Johnny Sugar Kane, who many feared could never play short. hung up, record of five consecutive assists during the first. second and third innings. Johnny at short for the Barons and Lee at the same spot for the 'Noogans had the busiest day of any two shortsmiths pastiming here this season. Kane executed eight chances perfectly, getting six assists and two put-outs. Lee. who Is one of the flashiest infielders seen here this year. but who looks a bit vac illating with the willow. got six as- sists and one put-out during the afternoon.
 Matthews Bossed Bates
 Maybe the real secret of Bates fine game is traced to the fact that Smut CT Matthews was sitting on the bench p0SSlHB uiIf- bdttS ndS the ut.n0et respect for Matty, for he spent his first year in professional baseball un- der him. That was with the Griffin. Ga. club last season. where Matty was manager. Matty is the man wnU brought Red out and told him he was bound for the majors. Under Matty's s guidance last season Red enjoyed the distinction of pitching two no-hit. mo- run games Small wonder, then, thay he believes in Matty. Shutter knows how to handle the local boy, and he sure got the best pitching Red had in him out of his system Saturday after neon.
 How Barons Won
 Morris, the Chattanooga youngster who pitched one one-hit game this apring and lost 1t, was invinciblt during the first four innings of Sat urday's battle. It was case ol three up and three down during the first four stanzas, Then, in the fifth something happened Or maybe 1 should say that Doc Silva and Stump Clarke caused it to happen. Do, was up after Harper had grounded out in the fifth, and he played sec ond in hand with high boundei down towards thire. Wight lost the drive in the sun as It bounced ovel his head. and Doc made streak fol second after he had rounded first. | was a freak two-bagger. Sum- Clark was up and the Baronian sun parlor attache slammed a safe swa into right on which Silva scored Wingfield attempted to peg the wing l.cofed Baron out at the plate. but tn. throw was too late and Doc went ints the plate without even being forced to hit the dirt.
 That closed out the tallying fo the afternoon. The Barons got mel en in the sixth, seventh and eighth but were unable to get them in tn Dosition to score. Given one-rul Iea6. Bates was unbeatable. It look o6 Njke he had more stuff than a