The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-15
NOT A BARON REACHES
 FIRST DURING TIM E JIM KEEFE PITCHE s
WhitehilI Cracks in the Eighth
 Inning, and Milwaukee Scores Four Runs-Keefe Pitches Four Perfect Innings

Noted for it's brewing-an accom- plishment which memory and long ing have kept vivid in the minds Of the masses-ATilwaukee has char tered a baseball club that bids fair to stir things up bit in the Amer ican association race this year. Man ager Harry Clarke brewed power full potion Saturday afternoon-sev- eral of them, in fact-that proved more than Joe Dunn's Barons could swallow, and the Magic City pas timers went down in defeat by the score of to 2.
 Manager Clarke's brew was of the kind that takes some time to act. For eight long innings the Barons struggled right manfully to throw off the effects of the dose of Carigan and Keefe being dealt them. And they were holding their own with the world, coming up for the eighth with the score standing and ?. Joe Dunn had mixed an antidote in Morrison and Whitehill that was staying off the opposing mixture very well.
 It was in the eighth that the an- tidote fell down, and the Milwaukee brew began to take effect. When the frame was over, Milwaukee had scored four runs. was leading to 2, and the Barons were so groggy from the brew and the effects of chasing solid base wallops down that they could do little but pant and gasp bit before expiring.
 Much CIoutinG.
 The game Saturday afternoon was really a thriller. There were long that actually sparkled. enlivening the afternoon. Joe Dunns men were right there among the leaders in the fielding end of the afternoon, but after the fifth inning they were among those absent in the hitting department.
 Jimmy Keefe, ex-big league hurler, was the final dose administered the Barons by that willy brewer of Mill waukee. Harry Clarke. And it is safe to say that 'Leetle Jeems" was the knockout drop that put the ? to 1 in favor of the Barons when Keefe took the mound, but from that moment on, so far hitting the ball was concerned, the Rarons were as harmless as couple of Maltese kit tens at a dog show.
 Didn't Reach First.
 The nearest the Barons got to first base while Keefe was pitching was when each mans turn came to oc- cupy the coaching box, and then they acted like their consciences hurt them for Judging that much on the Milwaukee star. Keefe twfrled four innings, and the fact that 12 men faced him and 2 men very regularly retired without reaching base speaks for itself of the shortness and sweet ness of Jimmies performance.
 Up until Keefe's knockout drops put the Barons to sleep and the an- tidote administered by Joe Dunn lost it's potency-the eighth inning. to be exact-the game see-sawed along in very nice fashion. as all little pitch ing battles do. Only four runs were scored during the first seven innings. two by the Barons and two by the Brewers.
 Barons Score First.
 Joe Dunn's men scored one before Milwaukees brew had found time to begin stirring. It happened in the first inning. when. with Trefry out, Neun singled to right went to third on wild pitch and scored when Brewer Catcher Shinault dropped Cooneys peg to catch him at the plate. after Taylor had grounded to the shortstop. Taylor went out steal ing and Clark lined to left field.
 The fourth inning saw the Brewers snatching that run back when Cooney singled through the pitchers box. and scored on Griffins bouncing sin gle to right. Mccarthy hit into double play, Morrison to Clark to Neun. a pretty bit of work.
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 Two Solid Drives.
 Joe Dunn's antidote was still working very well, and the Barons got that one back In their part of the fourth, retaining their one-run lead.