The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-25
Crackers Mak Cean Sueep O Series By Defeating Ba1on Score,
FRANCIS BEATS GOOD
 IN HARD FOUGHT TILT
Stewart Have Numerous Chances To Count.
 But Victory Slips From Their Grasp

Secretary Billy West of the Bir- [ mingham Baseball association, an- 2 nounced Saturday night the pur-
 chase of Paul Nick" Carter, who 7. played with the Kansas City Blues
 last year. Carter this year has
 been in Jersey City. The new Bar
 on twirler is a husky right handler.
 last year Carter worked in 21 games
 for the Blues. He was credited
 with three wins and two lost out of this number. The other times he
 worked as relief hurIer and was
 not counted either way. Carter
 has been asked to report as soon as
 opossible and is expected to join the
 team in Little Rock during the first
 of tho week. :
 The Barons lost the sixth straight game Saturday, when the Atlanta Crackers defeated them, to 3, and it xas from no act of commission nor com mission from the pitchers box that the game was dropped. The Barons should have won. It was only lack of punch in the big pinch and occasional streaks of bad fielding which lost the contest.
 This does not mean that Sep Good was not hit rather freely, but 1t does mean that with chances presented the Barons had the margin, for Ray Fran cis was hit about as freely as was Good However, defeat was staved off several times by great plays from the outfield, but it was finally miscue in the outer garden that did the dam age.
 Another factor, which went into the total of misplayed chances for the Barons was when Petey Brausen sent n drive past Paschal, which scored Spencer and should have scored Brau- sen. However, in trying to stretch the hit into a homer, Peter forgot to slide at the plate and was out by a close de eision. This run would have put the Barons one in the lead in the eighth instead of tying the count and the sub seuuent Cracker counter would have tied the score instead of won the game.
 Game Is Improvement
 The game was a much better exhibi- tion that the Barons have been witness ing at Rickwood Both pitchers kept their numerous hits scattered well, but were in the hole several times from err TOTS by fielders In no inning did either pitcher allow more than three hits and then in only one each.
 The Barons had numerous chances to count. Fourteen men were left stranded lon the bags during the con test, while Atlanta left eight unde- livered. In the seventh two men were on base and no outs and no one scored for the Barons. In the fourth two men were on base and none out and no Baron crossed the plate. Francis was .AsE =. kS ~ -w,s,,aton and xuoa hoakofy by good fielding. Stategy by the Cracker hurler was used to good effect and seemingly he pulled the game from the fire several times by using it. In the fourth, with two on base and two out. the southpaw Atlantan walked Stewart deliberately to get to left handed Rhode, who drove one to the right field fence, but Zoellers snagged it. Again in the eighth with two men on, Francis walked Ganzel deliberately filling the bases, to get to Camp. The second time This strategy worked for Camp grounded out to Burrus.
 Hit In Sixteenth Straight Camp and Stewart hit in their six teenth consecutive game, while Hart ford and PaschaI ran their string up to IA. Brausen led the Baron batters with three hits out of four times up, one of them ia triple. Ganzel got two out of three while Rhode got two safties out of four.
 Johnny Brock had perfect day al bat for the Crackers hitting dOu- ble and three singles out of four times up. Burrps got a double (and two sin gles out of four tries.
 Three plays from the outfield to the plate featured the Baron's defensive game. In the seventh inning Ganzel made beautiful throw to the plate after Brock had singled to left and cut Krehmeyer down in attempting to score. Later on in the same inning, Camp took Francis single and threw to Rhode, who in turn relayed to the plate to get Brock, but Spencer failed to hold the ball and the man was safe in the ninth, Jeanes caught Zoellers drive to center and threw Francis out al plate by a wonderful throw. However later in the same inning a man should have gone out by the same method. but Ganzel fumbled McCabe's grounded and Zoellers scored from second base to win the game.
 Bar0ns Score Three
 The Barons scored pair of runs in the third inning on two singles, two sacrifices and one error. Brausen was at bat first and singled. Stewart hit to Krehmeyer, who attempted to dou-