The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-28
BRED" BATES PITCHES GREAT
 GAME AND LOOKOUTS FALL BEFORE ONRUSHING BARONS
Great Pitching Duel Broken In Eighth When Cunning ham Walks In Tieing Run And Barons Run Riot
By staff Correspondent

CHA II IANOOCA, 1enn., July 2i.-- Cspecial)-One could expect such things to happen in Chattanooga-in this land where nature has allowed her fiekle fancy to ream from the hei ghts of Signal mountain to the depths of the valleys betw een-that an umpire. an insignificant looking little umpire, should prove such an important factor in the victory of the Barons over the Look outs Friday. It was the final game of the series, which the Bartns won, 5 to 1, and made it four out of the five from the Lookouts
 It all happened in the eighth in ming, and the turning point revolved around ban Pfenninger, dean of the Dixie arbiters.
 Three Barons were on base two had died and the third out in the making was at the plate in the per son of Claude (. Vann. giant catcher of the BarCns Dan Pfenninger must have been dazzled by the streaking white delivery "Quank' Drake was shooting plateward for he failed to keep his eye on the ball and called couple of very nice looking shoots balls
 NunnmaI5er Eanished.
 These close ones-which called down such maledictions from Les Nunamaker that the Lookout pilCt was banished from the park-were thrown in with two legitimate balls, and Vanu was walked forcing in the nun that tied the game at one all.
 The NunamaKer tirade could not crack the morale of Dan Pfenninger or even crack open his suOlid, poke face as he absorbed gobS of verbal punishment. It was easy tC see that I -,f tiets had been released ia one great leak, for the next Barons. Stump Clarke and Roy Moore hit safely sending in four more runs and the game was won for Birmingham, and 1.
 Up until that eventful eighth the game had been as pretty duel be- tween Red" Bates. for the Barons, and George Cunningham, for the Lt okouts, as 'Nooga railbirds have witnessed in a long time George had given Up only two hits and Bates had been touched for like number One of the bingles off the sorrel- topped Baron finger was a triple with man on base, which resulted in the lone tally of the Lookouts. The Eighth:
 And then came the eighth, which began in ominous fashion when Gun bingham walked tive men, and then voluntarily relieved himself in favor of "Quack" Drake, former Baron George had done well, but had sim ply pitched himself out, and did the wise thing in removing himself.
 The Look kouts were red ridden" crew Friday.
 Red Bates was in superb form and his lanlly right arm was shoot ing them down the groove like bull lets from rifle barrel. Bates held
 h. Mo-, I,. two walks. In only one inning was he in danger, and then his fate ap- peared on the horizon-in the form of three bagger-and faded away so swiftly that Red" never really realized how dangerously close he had come to losing d ball game. But then, Dan Pfenninger was on the scene--but that's only a repetition of what Chattanooga fans gazed upon and howled over at Andrews field Friday afternoon.
 The Lookouts scored their lone tally in the fourth frame. Bates walked, and was sacrificed to second by C. Anderson. Leonard hit an in field tap to Brausen who started chase between second and third that finally trapped Bates. Meanwhile Leonard made second while Bates was being run down. J. Anderson then walloped q three-b ba gger to right field that screamed in triumph as 1t winged it's way fenceward, and Leonard scored the lone Lookout tally of the game Men2el grounded out to end the rally.
 Exit, Mir. Cunningham.
 The Lookouts almost won the game on that one run. It was not until the eighth that the Barons were able to do thing with Gun ningham. Starting that frame. Hart ford walked and was sacrificed to second by Rates. Brausen also walked and Cunningham waved for Drake. Stewart popped out to short. and it seemed the danger was past for the Lookouts.
 However. Miller beat out an infield hit to third, and the bases were full. And then came Vann, and the great controversy. Anyway, Vann walked, forcing in Hartford with the tying run. The Lookouts had cracked for fair as Clarke singled sharply to right, scoring Brausen and Miller and sending Whitehill, running for Vann. to third. Roy Moore slammed the ball to the left field wall for two-ba gger, scoring Whitey and Clark The damage had been done,
 The score then stood 5 to 1, In favor of the Barons. and four to one for the series, and the big affair was virtually over. The Barons left here tonight for Little Rock to open a series against the Travellers.
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