The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-12
BAPONS WIN A GREAT HIM
ROBERTSON GAME WITH ELEVENTH,
BaronS Play Great Ball In First Game Under Leader ship Of Stuffy Stewart, Vet eran Second Baseman

The very spirit of Stuffy Stewart himself seemed to have entered the souls of those Barons Monday aft ernoon. and the boys played baseball such as you read about. in winning their first game under the leadership of the fiery young keystoner. The Barons trounced the Travellers in the first game of the series. 4 to 3, al- though the Pebbles forced them over II innings of stormy pastiming be- fore giving up the laurels of victory
 A double header was to have been played, but when those II gruelling frames were done, and when q persistent rain that fell at intervals all afternoon had ceased, it was too late to begin the second game. so the double -header was postponed until Tuesday.
 The end came suddenly. The Baron> had been fighting their hearts out against the Travellers during the pre- ceding ten innings, and the score stood at and 3. Goebel and Miller, . two of the heaviest hitting of the Barons. had fallen victims of the wiles of Traveller Pitcher Mccall in that final inning, both striking out and it seemed that the battle was due to stretch on into the evening Bobby Breaks It Up.
 Hartford managed to snake an in Held ull Into llTSl DdSe however, and up came Pop Robertson grand old veteran of the Barons. PoI had previously crashed out two doubles and a single. and by al laws of averages should have fallen down that time, but he didn't.
 Robertson crashed drive to right field, and Outfielder Gislasson slipped and fell attempting to field the ball It went for q safe hit-for two bags to be exact-and Hartford beat the thrown home yard or so, and the winning run had gone across the plate.
 That third two-base drive of Rob- ertson's brought to d close one of the greatest battles seen at the Wood this season. It was the boys first game without the leadership of Joe Dunn, who resigned Sunday, and Stuffy Stewart, veteran second base man, was in charge. Stewart shifted the outfield and Stump Clarke on third, pending the healing of an in jured hand belonging to Danny Clark, regular hot-corner man Afternoon Of Thrills.
 The afternoon was one of thrills. First one sensa tional catch and then another kept the fans in continual state of excitement. Rallies were nipped Tn the bud by some sparkling defensive work, and there was just enough hitting to make the after noon a lively one.
 Stuffy Stewards men jumped away to two-run lead when they scored once in both the second and third Innings. Then the Travellers put across three in the seventh, only to have those Barons come right back and tie 1t up
 The Barons first run came in the second inning. Goebel started the inning by walking, and was sacri- feed to second by Miller. Hartford popped out, but Robertson came through with the first of his two baggers-a drive to the right field wall-and Goebel scored. WhitehilI grounded out.
 The second run came in the third frame With one out, Stump Clarke walked, stole second, went to third on Stewards infield out, and scored on Neuns hit through second. Flip " ent out stealing.
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 Travellers Score Three.
 In the seventh the Travellers got to Bates for three runs, although