The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-15
GRAHAM HIT HARD BY BULLDOGS INV FOURTH
Stevens Pitches Steady Ball While Teammates Send Gra- ham To Showers With Ava Ianche Of Hits

Howard college won the city col lege championship Monday afternoon when she defeated Birmingham Southern on Munger bowl by score of to 3. Babe Graham. hero of the last Panther-Bulldog game in which he held the Bulldogs to six hits in 12 innings and won to 2, failed to come through with the same brand of pitching Monday and the Bulldogs at bat and he was driven to the showers at the end of the fourth.
 Ham" Stevens pitched steady ball for the Bulldogs and although nine hits were garnered off his delivery he twirled good ball in the pinches weakened in the ninth and allowed three hits that came near costing him the game.
 The Panthers made a desperate rally in the ninth with the count standing 5 to and two men down. of the day and Kimbrough was sent in to hit for Englebert. He singled and Mitchell followed with a single that scored Caldwell. Hodge came to bat and hit a long fly to center field. With the two men racing around the bases for scores that would have tied up the game Shelton made a good catch of the drive, which he just managed to get under, and ended the game.
 Fourth Inning Disastrous.
 The fourth inning was disastrous to the Panthers. Four hits went for four runs in this Inning and it was ended only when Ross Fowler, um- pire, called Stevens out on third, aft CT he had hit a three -bagger. on ac- count of Lackey's running up the frI hae inn tnE rd hn, ,1,fo in an attempt to draw the outfield- CTS throw to the plate instead of third base on the triple.
 The Bulldogs. scored in the first inning when Lackey, first man up, singled went to second on Shelton's hit.
 The Partners tied it up in the sec ond when Griffin hit a screaming triple to center field and scored on Caldwell's perfect bunt down tho first base line.
 In the fourth Brindley came up first for the Bulldogs and rapped out a two bagger to right field. Runyon was passed and White flew out to Miller and Griggs popped up to En- glebert. But with the two men down Dawson got his second consecutive single and scored Brindley. Afford followed with a double that scored Ioeti lltlu anu pdWSOI stevens then tripled and scored Afford. Stevens was called out at third when Lackey masqueraded as a base runner going home.
 Hodge went in at the first of the fifth and held the Bulldogs to four hits and shut them out for the rest of the game.
 Panthers Score One.
 In the seventh the Panthers push ed another run across when Caldwell doubled to left field, took third on Englebert's single and scored on Mitchells fly to center field. One run in the ninth finished up the Panther's scoring for the day.
 Gene Dawson, Bulldog second base man, was the hitting star of the day. He cracked out single on each of his four trips to the plate. He also played a good game on the keystone.
 Brindley and Lackey came close behind Dawson in hitting honors. Brindley hit two wo-baggers and a single out of five times up, while Lackey hit one double and twoI singles out of the same number of trips.
 Griffin. Caldwell and Mitchell led the Panther hitters. Griffin got a triple and single out of four times up while Caldwell got two doubles out of three tries and Mitchell got two singles out of three tries.