The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-01
STEVENS ALSO SHINES
IN FIRST or SERIES
Panther Miscues AT Critical Moments Count In
Defeat Play Again On Friday


baseball diamond for one man to win
out over nine and earn a victory in
hts game then the birmingham Southern
Panthers today would have been one.
jump ahead OF the Towards Bulldogs,
MOST likely. But since this is the set
ting for the fictionists> and not for the
commonplace such was not the case and
Howard won the opening game OF the
annual college series here. 2 to o.,
"Wednesday afternoon on Berry Field.
n was no fault Of "Dukiev Ham
titon that the Panthcrs did not
win but IL was nine-man opposition
that prevented It.
'Dukies Hamilton and Ham Stevens.
two brilliant college twirlers. tied up In
beautiful pitchers duel. stevens gave
up three hits and Hamilton five, but
the fans that were on the field Wednes-
twirier won the pitching honofs.
HamiIton Poorly Supported
with q team behind him generally
rated ais poor second best to the How
& ard nine. Hamilton pitched his heart out
for eight innings. Two hits, both OF
for pttouts had the field been dry, and
1t least one that should have been
played fer a putout under prevailing
conditions. were all that could be OBJ
tanned off him In those eight innings.
Fourteen men were struck out by the
measlys hits comprised the performances
during. his first eight innings OF pitch
Ing
It was Gene Dawson who got the
first two hits, The minute Bulldog
second-sacker hit a drive into center
field, which due 10 very wet and slip
perry ground Mitchell could not reach,
but may have done SO ON dry field.
The second was a slow grounder to
Capt. Ben Englebert, who fielded IL still
more slowly and the f1eety Dawson went
safe at first though by all rights should
have expired. etk
First Bun Unearned
A for the first run It was Ifnearned.
Dawson's double was gained when he
came up, first man in the sixth, and
then Scokel hit a grounder to Hamilton
and he threw to Caldwell Rt first and
he III turn failed to tag the sack. al.
though he had plenty OF time. So all
climax OsBrien let one of Hamilton's
dow speeders get away from him and
Dawson scored. Hamilton struck out
the next three men, Barfield. 'Brindley
and al ,Bains.
Hamilton, however, that eciipsed the
work Of Stevens. The Howard ace
pitched q wonderful game. Although
he did not have the control In the
pinches that Hamilton possessed and
struck out but seven meps he twirled
. brand OF ball, behind sensational sup-
port, that would have been ciassed as
brilliant on any college diamond. He
was ii bad holes on one or two, oc-
caslons but pitched out of them scath-
less. In the very outset he was in bad.
After be had famed Mitchells first man
up, he walked Caldwell and Anderson
singled, then Englebert drew pass and
the bases were full with one down. How
ever, Kimbrough was struck out and the
best Miller could do waas2a pop fly to
first and the inning closed scorelessly.
Ham Pitches Out
In the sixth an infield error allowed
Caldwell, first up, to get on base. He
was sacrificed to second but stevens
struck out the next two man while the
tnarooned runner waited patiently for
deliverance.
times and when Richardson hit, with
one down In the second, a pretty double
play on the next grounder cut two men
down. Again In the third when the
first man walked double kill put two
men out Of running.
Nor was the brilliant work of the
fielders confined TO the infieId. Two
sensational catches by Fred White in
the outfield saved Stevens some trouble.
One of the drives was clearly labeled
for three bags. A great catch by Bar
field on heavily hit ball and beauti-
+
to the uniformly good support which
tided Stevens over when the going was
rough.
HAMILTON Breaks
II was In the ninth that Hamilton
pitching against seemingly unbeatable
odds, cracked under the strain after the
outcome seemed hopeless with the Pam
thers being cut down on all bases and
men left waiting without hits to ad-
vance them. These hits were obtained
off the Panther twirler in the last frame.
Shelton. first man up, hit crashing
drive9to the fence, with the count three
and two on him, for three bags. Hyde,
who had been struck out twice by Ham
iton, then hit double to eenter that
scored Shelton. Dawson got his third
hit, . single, after Stevens had been
thrown out at first by Hamilton. The
HtIitep twirier then struck out his
fifteenth man, Scokel, and Hyde was
caught and tagged by O'Brien on the
play which was to have been squeeze.
Hamilton Jfites
Hamilton not only pitched an excel
lent game Of baseball but obtained
one Of the Panthers' three bingles off
stevens and then struck out the Howard
pitcher, which again save him the odds.