The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-03
JOE MARTINA AND EARL WHITEHILL TURN IN TWO WONDERFUL PERFORMANCES
New Orleans Pitcher HuTIS 21 Innings of Great Ball While Local HurIer Allows Three Hits in 12 Innings

NEW OR1EANS, La., sept. Z- 6Special )-Joe Martina this after noon defeated the league leading Roy Moore and the Birmingham Barons, 4 to l. in the first game and in the second tilt battled 12 innings to a 60 draw, with Earl Whitehill. Um- pire Pfenninger calling the titanic duel at the end of the twelfth be- cause of darkness.
 Martina's pitching was not bril- liant all the way. He ran into lots of trouble, but it took a lion- hearted moundsman like Martina to overcome the many obstacles and to wind up the afternoon with nothing lost.
 Beating Roy Moore was not so hard, because Martina enjoyed a four-run lead from the second in- ming. But getting that 12-round draw with the youthful whitehiu in that second game unquestionably was great
 Only Martina's Iron Man" con- duct overshadowed the hurling of Whitehin in that second game. In fact, whitehills hurling compared with the best mound work seen here this season, and the most remarkable part of it was that the young southpaw, accepting the issue, ap-- peared to pitch stronger and stronger as the game wore on into extra innings and the sable blanket of night began to crowd around the surrounding climate.
 Whitey Gives Up Three Hits.
 Whitehill held the Pelicans tC' three very much scattered hits in the 12 innings, and only one of those was a clean hit. In the second inning "Tarzan'' Tucker pasted a three-bag- ger to the scoreboard. wallop that had no strings tied to it and offered no excuses.
 In the third Dowie drove fly to left field. when Clarke after getting to it as he ran into the left field crowd Cn the foul line, dropped 1t, and Fuckers Texas leaguer over sec ond in the tenth also was flukey.
 Outside of those blows there was not even a questionable hit, the Baron fielders backing up Whitehlu in errorless play.
 Tucker, in the second. and Knaupp, in the eighth, were the only Pels to reach third base, and only four others saw first Knaupp walked and was sacrificed to second, then went to third on an infield out. Whitehill Walked three men and struck o~t eight.
 most of his credit through the fact that he had to pitch the hardest kind of ball. whereas Whitehill had many an easy inning because Of the et- fectiveness of his southpawing Dan Pfeninger's calling of hostilitles was a popular move.
 Pels Start Early.
 The Birds, helped little by Third Baseman Brausen and Moore himself, got off to an early start by scoring
 araer md n Gilbert grounded out, EWoldt scratched a hit off Moores glove and went to second when Brausen threw badly to first. Brausen made great stop of SchiclS's liner, but threw It over Neuns head. Ewoldt tailed ana Schick went to second. Tucker then Eounded out to Stewart, Schick go- ing to third, but Stewart got under Fosss pop fly.
 A"Cotton" Knaupp started refrigera- tion process on the game in the Pels' second when he walked and went to second on a wild pitch, then to third when Henry grounded out. Dowle was hit by a pitched ball, and Joe Martina poked clean single to right, scoring Knaupp and sending Dowie to second. Gilbert rapped another clean bingle to right and Dowie tal- lied Martina going to third and Gill bert to second on the throw 1n Ewoldt singled to left, scoring Mar tina, while Gilbert took third. On Schick's grounder to short, Gilbert was thrown out at the plate. Tucker then ended the round by grounding out to stewart
 Hartford opened Birmingham's third with a single to center. Moore flieds out to center, but Brausen trapped his second single to right, and when Stewart walked, the sacks were full Miller hit to Ewoidt, who tossed out Stewart at second, while Hartford scored. Foss threw out Robertson.
 The Pels gleaned only two hits off Moore after the second, and the Baron hurler received great support from his mates The Birds never got a man beyond second. Martina, after that fifth, pitched better ball. and the Pelican lead was never in danger.