The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-17
SEVENTH FRAME PROVE
UNDOING OF WHITEHILL
IN CUNNINGHAM BATTLE
LookoutS Score All Their Runs
In One Inning-Baron Rally
Falls Short

It's strange SlSnt To see fdfi
Whitehll losing a game-to see the
opposition pondins his offerings all
over the lot. It's still stranger
{ sight to see the Lookouts of Chatta-
nooga wallopng the Barons, wallop-
ing them as if they had backed up
on Lockout mountain and rolled
down on the unsuspecting Joe Dunn
ers as landslide would slip up on
4 lone little shack perched on the
hillside All that happened at Rick
wood Wednesday, when StranG Nick
Inns rejuvenated FASTENERS defeated
the Barons in the opening game of
the series, > to 3.
one bad apple can spoil the bar
rel, the wise ones say, and this fact
was torcefuily brought out Wednes-
day. Eight little goose eggs = n
splendid crop--were handed out to
the 'Noogans by Whitehill, but
thrown in with the lot was one bad
ieck-one frame that fairly glisten-
ed with blaekness-and the entire
setting went to the bad.
In only one inning were the Look
outs able to give Whitley any trouble
at all, and because of that one bad
frame. the eight little goose eggs
went for naught The Lookouts gave
Whitehill misery in the seventh, and
their total runnage in that inning
won the game from them.
George Making Good.
George Cunningham. veteran Look
out. was ON the mound for the Chat
tauoogans' and George pitched very
nice game. That much must be ad-
mitted George is making a mans
sized effort to come back" as a
pitcher. and if he turns in couple
more games for Chattanooga as he
did Wednesday. George will be sit
~ oft
1t was the first showing of the
1923 Lookouts at Birmingham, and
fandom could not help but be i'm
pressed with the wonderful improve
ment Les Nunnamaker has wrought
in the Chattanooga team. There was
nothing of the lax. cellar variety of
baseball Lookout teams have been SO
prone to display during the past
couple of years or more.
The game started out like a pitch
ing duel between Cunningham and
WhitehiIl, and it retained the ear
marks of such right on through until
the seventh inning. Then. runs and
base hits began to shower down on
Fleetwood, and it was just common.
every day ball game.
Cy Anderson's triple in the first
with only one man out threatened
to score an early lead for the Look
outs. but Whitehill forced one man
to pop up and another to ground out
for the final out. That was the only
frame except the seventh in which
the 'Noogans threatened to spoil
Whitehill's barrel OF goose eggs.
Bnrons Get Run Lead.
In the third frame. Whtehilrs
mates gave him a one-run working
margin. when they tailed a score off
Cunningham. Meekin was walked
and went to second on Whitehilis
sacrifice. Stump Clarke walloped a
two-bagger to the right centerield
wall sending Meeking across the pan.
The Barons lost a chance to run in n
few more scores when Hartford and
Neun went out in order.
From then until the seventh, the
GAM was holly contested. with never
no, c than one man reaching base eX-
cept in the fourth, when the burners
had men on first sad third with two
out Meekin flied out for the third
out to end that rally
1t as in the seventh that Whitey's
barrel of goose eggs went smash
ing Leonard led off the frame by
striking out. Then the fireworks be-
gan. Hanger and Bates singled, and
Hanuger scored on Nunnamakers
wallop to right. Shay singled to CEN
ter and Bates scored. Then, with
two on base. Cunningham hit triple
to deep left field, and Nunnamake r
and SHAY scored Hindt grounded out
at third. Cy Anderson grounded 10
Taylor but Neun missed Tommy $
throw, and Cy went safe at hrst,
while Cunningham scored. }. And
erson walked, but Leonard ended the
frame as ne nad begun it. by striking
ont That was the great inning for
the I.ookouts. their five hits and
Nouns error letting in five runs.
o O o
Baron Rally Falls Short.
In the eighth. the Barons made a
game effort to regain their lead ana
their prestige, but Tell two runs snort
Of tying. Hartford and Neun started
the inning by singing in succession
and Danny Clarke walked, filling the
bases with none out. Miller singled to
center and Hartford scored, and the
leases w-ie .till fun with none out.
Tommy Taylor hit fly to deep
light that went for a sasrahce, as
Neun scored after the catch. Robert
son hit hard drive to Hindt, VINO
mana..ec |, knock the bali down and
throw itobby out. Hammond went
in to p;nch hit for Meekin, and swung
1T three for Il strike-out. TWO runs
Was the best me Barons could DO, ana
tha score thea stood at and 3, the
final count. .,oa
That ninth inning rally, so famed
in baseball a the thrill that never
fails' did not materialize, for both
I.ot.kouts and Baron went out in
,r,,er in the final frame.
The game was void of unusual iea-
ture. except that terrific maullng
Given Whitehill in the seventh. stump
Clarke continued on his Juggling way:
when he crashed out two Dlhsles oii
(.unuin CHAM.