The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-27
MEMPHIS AGAIN.
 BEATS Fl. WORTH
Rogers Bests Walkup In Twirling Duel, Vim
 $ ming 2 To 1

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. 26.-The Memphis Cickasaws, Southern Associa- tion pennant winners, clipped the claws of the Fort Worth Partners today for the second time in succession, wallop- ing the Texas league champions, to ], in the third game of the Dixie series for the baseball championship of the south-a play-off of the initial game of the series which ended in tie. a4i
 Tonight the Panthers and Chlcka- saws were journeying to Fort worm to resume hostilities tomorrow m the Panther's liar, Fort Worth confident of overcoming the two-game lead gained by the Chicks on their home grounds, and Memphis with equal confidence, the heritage of the double victory here'
 Pitchers Battle
 Today's game was a nip and tuck litchers' battle with the youthful iett lander, Jimmy Walkup, batting against Tom Rogers, seasoned cam paigner, and so far as pitching honors go, the count was about even and ls scoring, the advantage was with Fort Worth until the seventh inning, when Memphis put over its first tally, the tieing run, as a result of double, a single, a base on balls and an error. The deciding run came in the eightn when Doc" Prothro, Chick infieider, who had singled and advanced to sec ond on Carlyle's grounder, scored on Yam Yaryan's clean single to center.
 Rogers, who pitched seven innings and gave way to pinch hitter, DIT of baseball stragtegy that proved to pc the turning point in the game, allowed five hits. and Harry Kelly, Parkan, Arkansas youth, who succeeded him, permitted only one in the last two in- rings. Walkup allowed seven but struck out two Memphis batters, the hard Hitting Carlyle and Anderson, both in the same inning, while neither of the Memphis pitchers had a strikeout, Rog- CTS allowed one base on balls and so did Walkup.
 Scatters Hits
 The hits Rogers allowed were scat tered through four innings while Walk up was hit safely in five innings. Two of the five Fort Worth hits while Rogers was pitching came in the fourth, in which the sPanthers scored, ana Memphis made two in each Of the two innings in which they put over luhs. Two of the Memphis hits were doubles, both by Carr Smith.
 Fort Worth put the first run over in the fourth inning when Sears, the only Panther to connect for an extra base, smashed a two-bagger to the right field fence, advanced to third on Palmer's single and crossed the rubber on the throw-in of Edington's fly to deep right.
 Chicks Even Count
 Memphis evened the count, when with one out, Smith drove out his sec end two-base hit of the day, went to third when Anderson grounded to Phelan and Yaryan, who had pre- ceded Smith with a single, was be- ing run down between third and kome Lamotte, next up, was purposely walked, filling the bases, with Rogers due to come to bat next. But instead, Water Barbare, utility player, was sent to face NWalkup, and with this strategy came the break that tied the score. Phelan fumbled his grounder and allowing Smith to cross the plate.
 In the eighth, Prothro, second man up, singled through the box, was safe on second whNa Tavener dropped Kraft's throw of Carlyle's grounder and scored on Yaryan's single to cen ter. That ended the scoring with the count to in favor of Memphis, the same score that gave yesterdays game to fba SIhinka SoxyS