The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-15
fl URT'S PINCH HITTING IS RESPONSIBLE FOR Az WIN OF TRAVELLERS OYER BARONS
Stump Clarke Starts Rally With Home Run In Ninth, But HomeIings Do No Further Damage

that when pitcher Is "right'-in the fullest sense of the word-even the best teams can't beat him. Also it's a law that even the worst team in the world can't lose when the op position Is unable to score any runs against 1t. Gould was right Tues day, and the Barons couldn't scocre any runs to amount to anything against the Travellers. These condi | tions all conspired to give the Kids of Kid Elberfeld a ball game from the Barons. The score was to Tuesday and enabled the Travellers to even the series with the men of Stewart
 Young Gould pitched an excellent brand of baseball, while his team mates really hit Red Bates harder than the score indicates. In only two innings were as many as two hits punched off him, and 1t was In each of those two frames that the Barons got one of their two runs. In the other seven innings 1t was a case of total inability to make any hoadway against Goulds delivery, the men of Stewart either going out ' on infield taps or sending out futile . pop-ups that were gathered h.
 Gould and Hurt Responsible.
 Gould must be given credit for that Traveller victory. It was his | excellent mound work that held the ! hard hitting Barons at bay, while his mates were coining eleven juicy . bingles into only four runs. The ; young Traveller wound up the game in dramatic fashion, striking out the husky Roy Moore, the slugging moundsman, who was pinch-hlttlng in the ninth inning. Nerertheless, . F. ta S6nTtStOn who hit the two pinch blows that scored three of the runs that beat the Barons.
 Red Bates was a bit off Tuesday but that didn't hurt Reds p1tchlhS record much. The sorrel-topped Baron has been pitching probably the best ball of his career lately, ana defeat now and then will happen to the best of pitchers. ,e
 For the moment 1t seemed as II that ninth inning would produce d Garrison finish, so spectacular in baseball, and so beloved by the nome town folks. The Barons were three runs behind when Sumpter Clarke came to bat. Stump slashed out wicked drive that screeched It's Way path in it's wake. The pellet-a muchly mauled pellet landed In front of the Chero-Cola sign in cen ter field. and Stump Clarke steaiheQ across the plate second aheau o5 the pill. which Mack had retrleVeo bv a nice bit of fielding. It was clean home run, and gave the Barons their second run of the game. It was also the final tally, which proved the death of that Garrison tlnlsh tndt seemed in the making, Tor, alter Goebel had cracked out his second bit of the game, Milner popped up, and Gould struck out the mlsnty Roy Moore. who was sent in to hit for Hartford.
 Bates Cracks in Seventh.
 The game was something of a duel ,,ntii the seventh inning. Each team had scored a run. and the pitchers were breezing along nicely, unIil Rates cracked in the seventh III the third inning the TraVelers put across their first run, due 10 Hlce nair of extra base clouts. With one a,t Gould cracked out his first two basger of the game, drive to leI.' After Zoellers had popped up, Hurt, young shortstop, sent three pd sS. whistling to center tleld anu scored. Hurt was left .sts strahoet e't ,o third when Bandrimer flied out 10
 The Barons' first run came in the ne fo1rth. With one out. Sherlii Vann. who was behind the plate TOT the Barons, doubled to left put Was caught in chase pTe .,ad TO and third when Clarke tapped to Gould. Sumpter made second WhiIe Vann was being tagged out. 6oe bel's first single of the game was d inicv swat to right that scored Clarke from second with the first run of the game for the men or stewart The rally died when Mllner went out on an infield roller.
 The game rocked along uhul the seventh. with neither team dolng any more damage than one single each' Put in that seventh the whole Tray eler arsenal blew up. and Bates ana his Baronial mates went SKY hlsh' Tbe Kids scored three runs ana colu storage took it's course, so lar the winning of the game was con cerned.
 Hurt Hits Another one.
 With two out. Williams peat out a hit to deep short, and went to seT ond on Mack's hit to center Hou11 ,ncorked his second two-bagger or tbe eame a double down the rlShl field foul line, and Williams scored Mack was forced to leave the game and Sigman ran for him. Zoellers .ras Intentionally walk filllng the hases And then came Hurt. whoss ,ri,le had scored the first TraVeler run few innings earlier, hul M came through with wallop to cen ter. and Gould and Slgman scoreu with the final two runs of the game fIT the Pebbles. Bandrimer forced Hurt at second to end the rally.
 And then came the ninth, Tn Wnlch the Rarons started their Garrlsoh finish. but finished it even nelore '"e foundation trenches were dug
 As Nashville was idle, the men