The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-07
ROY MOORE LATEST BARON HURLER WILD LN FIRST DIXIE START
Hits Bunched Off Cox In First lnning-Tuero In Great Form Throughout

ATLANTA, Ga, June 6.-(Special) After the Crackers discovered that
 it was possible to combine hits with Roy Moore,s wildness, they re- i sumed a savage attack that had driven Plateau Cox to the showers in the first inning and easily won the opening game of the series from the Birmingham Barons, the score being 3 to l.
 Moore. making his first start in the . Southern league since being turned . over to the Barons by the Detroit Tigers. who are apparently keen to do anything they can for Pilot Joe Dunn, for three innings forced At 2 lanta fans to wonder why he was ever let out by Ty Cobb. Then MT. Moore, who looks like an obliging , russ, made a free-win offering of ; the explanation.
 He suddenly became wild and the , press box dtteetive resolved to in , form the world that Moore was given the gate in big time because : he has a rather hay idea about the location of the home platter. As i long a. he was in possession of ac- curacy, Moore made the Crackers look bad. but the end of the tussle found the Baron's newest ac- .ouisition a badly battered young man. He made his appearance in the first inning after the Crackers had run ! batting averages up several notches , against Cox. who showed little eN- { cept a keen desire to get out as . quickly as possible. Two bases were occupied when the new southpaw en- | tered the hostilities, but the fire went out when Moore made Tuero go out on an easy grounder
 Moore Pulls Out.
 Then for three innings Moore pitched hitless ball. Moore walked the first two batters to face him in the fourth and used bad judgment on a sacrifice bunt, filling the bases, but then, pitted against the heavlest hiters in the Atlanta lineup, Moore eased safely out of his troubles.
 The new Baron proved conclu- sively, however. that unless he likes his wildness In daily doses, he will very likely turn out to be one of the big winners in this circuit, for he most assuredly has the stuff Moore has considerably more speed than the average southpaw now em- | ployed in the Southern and his curve | is extremely baffling.
 The Crackers went right out for runs against Plateau Cox Eddie l Moore, first up, popped out, but Guyon smashed a triple down the | right field foul line and scored when | Stewart, attempting to head the In | dian at third, threw into the bleach CTS. Killinger then walked and went | to third on Herman's long single to center Burke walked, filling the | bases. Ring singled through third l and killinger came over with the | second run. Yockey forced Ring at second but Herman scored on the | play and Miller's single to left put over Burke with the fourth run. Cox was taken out at this stage and Moore sent in.
 Rnrons Threaten.
 Tuero pulled out of nasty hole
 in the second, but the Barons got to
 him in the fourth, pushing across one run. Neun walked for the start CT and went to second on Sumpter Clarke's single. J. Miller hit into double play. Yockey tagging Clarke and completing the play by tossing quickly to Herman. Neun reached third on the play and scored when Goebel was called safe at first after rolling slow one to deep short.
 The Crackers regained this lost ground by scoring once in the fifth. | Burke walked and went to second on Rings sacrifice. Yockey struck out | but Miller singled to left and Burke 1 scored.
 A double steal gave the Crackers 1 another run in the sixth After Ed die Moore and Guyon had gone out | on grounders, Killinger walked and went to third on Herman's single, scoring when he and the Cracker first baseman successfully worked the steal Stewards throw to head Killinger being too high.
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 Three In Eighth.
 t-The Crackers sent over their final barrage in the eighth, three runs re- snltine. Guyon walked and scored on Ktllnger's triple to left center. Herman went out, Taylor to Neun. Killinger holding third. Burke hit to Stewart and Killinger was caught at the plate Argument that fol- lowed this decision resulted in Kill finger being put out of the game, Ring taking his position at third, while Brady went into right field. Ring walked, putting Atlanta run ners on first and third. Yockey tripled to the right field bank, Ring and Burke scoring.
 After Taylor had opened the Ba- rons' half of the ninth with clean single to left, the game was held up for several minutes by rain shower, but when play was resumed the rally died when Robertson hit into double play. Yockey to Moore to Herman. Roy Moore closed the game by going out. Yockey to Moore.