The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28
By HENRY VANCE


 Redwood Fields baseball master piece for all time and probably the greatest game ever seen in the South ern league, was staged Saturday afternoon before 1000 fans, when for 13 innings Birmingham and Mem phis battled to a 0-0 draw, and then, :. in the fourteenth, Birmingham won it, To.
 The game was more fuli of drama and tense moments than any ever seen here, and when Tooter Brandon, home grown product. delivered with the single in the fourteenth that brought the only run of the day, some thing I have never seen in profess sional baseball happened. His com trades threw their arms around Bran dons neck and carried him into the club house. Frank and Dick Merri- well in their palrny days never wit messed or participated in anything like it for Saturdays fourteenth ming struggle outfictioned fiction and outdid anything ever concocted in the most vivid imagination in the world.
 Brandon Wins Game
 After left-hander Earl Whitehill and right-hander Benton had fought the most sanguinary pitchers duel for 13 innings ever seen at Redwood, along came the Pratt City product with the pinch-blow that uprooted Memphis hopes and Carlton Moles- worth's pennant-mad Barons won their elevente straight game. It was too near sun-down to start the second game. so this end of the double header was called off as the rules of the league specify that no game shall be allowed to start unless 1t is two hours before snudown.
 Entering the fourteenth frame, after being held scoreless for 1s in- nings, Tommy Taylor skied to sec ond base for the first putout. Harry Harper waited Benton out and was walked. Doc Silva then crashed single through short and Harper took third. A sacrifice fly would win the game. The stands. already having eheered themselves to whisper over the most sensational defensive game they had ever witnessed, rose up and pleaded with Jesse Burkett for the necessary fly, but Jesse wasn't equal Ito the task. He popped out to first base. Tooter Brandon then came up. the Pratt City entry having gone into the game to do the catching when Claude Robertson was banished at the start of the ninth. Silva took a big lead off first and dashed for second as the pitcher unwound for the delivery, Tooter waded into the ball with all his grit and power and slammed it into right field for a clean single, Harry Harper coming home in a walk and the game was over. Pale and haEgard, but happy beyond words the mighty gathering filed through the exits. The after ttinon had hean fOo much
 Pop Bottle Shower
 Spliced in with the greatest ball game ever seen on a local field was the most sanguinary pop-bottle shower ever staged in honor of an umpire. A hundred or more bottles flew toward the head of Umpire Guthrie from the right field bleach CTS as the Barons half of the ninth inning. In the ninth with Benton on first ane one down Burke hit to Stuffy who tossed to Burkett. fore ing Benton. Burkett whipped the ball to first for the completion of "a, double play full stride ahead of the runner, but Umps Guthrie handed out putrid decision and called the man safe at first. He had been giv- ing the Chicks the best of 1t all afternoon on the rankest sort of decisions, and so had Pfenninger, The Baronss had crashed under the strain and so had the fans. Then when the Umps rushed over to the dug-ou with his neck bowed in a Tarzanian fash ion, and banshed Manager Moles- worth, the fusillade cut loose from the bleachers. Pop bottles crashed into each other in mid Lair in their flight towards the head of the um- pire. but Guthrie stood his ground with his neck still bowed in a hos~ tile attitude and miraculously escaped injury. Policemen rushed into the bleachers. aided by plainclothesmen and quelied the riot. But for some kuick action would probably have cers Guthrie would probably have been mobbed for fair. as he had famed the. flames of furtys by his fighting pose afield. and by his un- warranted favoritism in giving every close one in the game to the Mem phis team,
 Barons Orerjoyed
 After the game l went into the clubhouse and never saw an anna teur team more joyful over the fruits of conquest than the Barons Molcy was overjoyed even though he had been banished from the dugout and fined $1o. Every Baron wore a smile 36-inches wide. and they were stil batting each other on the back and CetcpIduns the NlctOry ZU minutes after the climax had come. Such a spirit wins pennants. Stuffy Stewart took off an old sweat shirt griiny with dirt. I've been wearing it ever since we started our winning streak" said Stuffy and I wouldn't change 1t now for worlds. We were due to lose today. but we won. Over tfat crucial one our winning streak should continue.
 You can't beat spirit like that You can't even tie it. Moley has hie men fighting for every inch of ground. and they are off to Little Rock this morning to hook up in a fous-Eame series. determined to carry the fight to the Elberfeldians 4 Victory Saturday. while the Bears were