The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-05
"LEFTY" FUHR TOO GOOD FOR .STEWART'S SWATSMITHSAND MOBILE WINS OPENING GAME
Walter Stewart Off Form And Bears Hit Him At Will, Get ting Fourteen Hits With Four For Extra Bases

MOBILE, Ala, Sept. 4.-The Mobile Bears handed the Birmingham Barons an awful drubbing In the first game of the final series with the upstate ball club on the homo diamond and at the same time chalking up their fourth straight victory in three days of play the score of the easy contest being to 2. Lefty" Fuhr turned one of those tight pitching efforts for which the southpaw is noted and the reliable hurler registered his twenty-first victory for the season and his fifth straight defeat of the Barons this year.
 The Bears landed on Walter Stew art just as they pleased. batting out II hits, of which four of them were for extra bases. Stewart practically had nothing on the ball, and the Bears fattened up their batting aver age.
 Fuhr was scored on in one inning due to two freaks of baseball, one of them a lucky hit by Stump Clarke that he got off the end of his bat and 8 mysterious hop of the ball at the plate when the pill was almost in Hevings hands. The steadiness of the Mobile hurler was the best part of his work. but he had real ball club behind him. fielding faultless ex- cept in one instance Only four balls went out of the infield during the time that Fuhr worked, the Mobile infielders having 19 assists to their credit.
 Bears Open Attack.
 The Bears began their real attack on Stewart in the third. when double by Heving, an infield out and Zeider's single, which fell safe back og short, counted for a run.
 The Barons' only runs of the game came In the fourth inning after one man was out. Miller drew a walk
 Vann's infield out advanced him to second. Clarke rapped the ball with the end of his bat lodging a wide one and 1t rolled into short right field, D.
 Williams got the ball and Heving had Miller 10 feet at the plate, but the paIi suddenly hoped away and went | near the stand, Miller scoring and Clarke reaching third. Milner sent a single out of reach of Cueto and Clarke scored.
 Mobile enjoye bay geast of Stew l art Tn the fifth inning, when ten
 went to the bat. After Marriott went out on a fly to Milner in deep
 right, Mulvey went safe when Hart
 Iord booted his grounder. Heving | registered his second hit of the
 game, hot grounder that Hartford 1 could not handle. Fuhr singled to center but Mulvey was held at third. | Kid Zeider with his second hit of
 the contest double to left sent Null
 Vey and Heving home. The hitting | off Stewart continued when Denny | Williams doubled to center, this blow
 scoring Fuhr and Zeider. Niehoff
 flew out to left; Huhn walked, Cueto
 singled to left to send D. Williams
 across the plate and Huhn to second
 Marriott for the second visit to the l plate in the big round cracked a sin | gle to right center but Huhn was out
 at the plate to close the inning.
 Score More in Seventh Y79 rio9
 The Bears continued to score off 1 Stewart in the seventh frame, send
 ing three runs across the plate. Nie-
 hoff led this inning with a single to 1 left. Huhn drew his second walk | Cuetos sacrifice advanced the two
 runners. Marriott went out on a
 long fly to Miller in center who made 1 a circus catch near the fence. Nie-
 hoff scored on the play and Huhn
 went to third Mulvey walked and | stole second and then Johnny Hev- | ing sent out his fourth safe rap of 1 the afternoon, a single to center. | scoring Huhn and Mulvey, Fuhr 1 stepped further scoring when Hart | ford made a great stop and threw | to get his man at first.
 The Barons got two runners around | to third in the fifth due to an error. l sacrifice. a single Iand an infield | out, but the visitors were unable to | score.
 Johnny Heving had a field day at | the bat In the game, cracking out | two doubles and two singles out of 1 that many times up. Denny Will l Hams and Zeider secured a double and single each. Cueto was in the game with several fast stops and throws, while Stump Clarke fielded | like a baseball hawk all of his six
 putouts being hard ones. Clarke in the eighth inning went to the corner of the left center fence to rob Nei- hoff of what would have been a
 triple. The fielder took the ball
 sideways on the run. Miller In the
 center for the Barons made several spectacular catches of long hit fly balls.