The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-05
Barons Double Cross Fans and Weather Man When They Play Game
Mover Breaks Up Game In Fifth Inning With a. Two Bagger-Teams Play
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Acts of treason performed by such notables as Brother Cain. Annanis. Brutus, Benedict Arnold and numer- ous other worthies will probably last forever in the annals of the worlds history. But even those time worn acts of faithfulness will fade into in significance before the unprecedented double crossing those Barons gave the fans Wednesday afternoon.
 By all laws of baseball, rainy weather and human nature, there should not have been a baseball game at Redwood Wednesday, and prema- ture announcements that the game would not be played cut the attend ance to a minimum. At the last moment, Baron Boss Joe Dunn de- cided he would play and the Millers, fiends for mud and moisture. agreed. The game was played and Joe Dunn's hirelings took a licking for their trouble, 6 to ,.
 Postponement of the game was so obvious that Brother Dunn couldn't even find all his own hirelings when game time came and the lineup he presented in battle against the Mill lers would make a patched quilt look like a pane of glass in it's compara- tive smoothness. From top to bot tom, regulars are the exception, rather than the rule, and the fact that the lineup Dunn used Wednes- day was able to hold the Millers to a one run margin, speaks mighty we'll for the Yannigans.
 sF'Iu' Bad.
 Pop" Robertson has the flu" and couldn't participate, while Tom Walsh, Stump Clarke and a few others didn't show up when game I,nx "a " decided the game had rightfully gone the way of all baseball games on day like Wednesday and did little sflewing" of their own. Joe Dunn's language when they did show up was probably itself a little fluent"
 Well, back to that game which should not have been played-and, letting in those 17S,999 fans who didn't attend the game in on secret, it really couldn't be called game that was played at ala former Baron turned up at the correct loping two-bagger. It was in the fifth inning, and the Millers needed three runs to take lead. Two men were on base, when Hollahan crashed out a triple that sent the two tieing runs across the plate. Walker Mayer, a former Baron, waded to the plate and skidded two bagger to center that sent Hollahan home with the run that won the game for Min neapolis.
 There is not much to be said about the game that can better the situa tion at all. Base hits skidded across the sloshy infield like cannon balls across the mud banked barrens of No, Mans Land. In all. 23 hits were made, 12 by the Millers and II by the Barons Under ordinary conditions this number would probably have heen cut in half as would the total number of errors committed.
 optlmi.ts. Beyond n Doubt.
 Billy West. secretary of the Bir- mingham baseball club, believes he has found tIe worlds greatest op timists,t the half dozen or so fans who attended Wednesdays baseball game at Redwood. In the face of driving downpour that beat and pounded the streets of Birmingham all Wednesday morning, in spite of the muddy. slippery, almost impas- sable paths leading to Redwood park; in spite of premature an nouncements of the postponement of the game: in spite of the fact that eS out Of 100 ball clubs would not have thought of playing ball game yesterday, those few fans trailed to Redwood park in. the slender hope of seeing a ball game. Their admira- ble spirit was rewarded with a game, and it was not in vain, for such vir- tue is undeniably deserving of its reward.
 -Barons and Millers play again at Rickwood Thursday, and if Wednes- days episode is any chronicle of tine mood the two ball clubs are in, noth- ing. short of repetition of the Gal weston flood will prevent those mud Hnd rain mad pastimers performing ht Redwood in the final game of