Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-09
And Held the Pelicans Down by Filming Manager Powell $40 and Bowman $5-Knowles Acted Ugly in
 Montgomery.
Pesr1ts of vesterdav,s Games..
Standing of the Clubs.

Yesterdays game was one of the pret- tiest seen on the home diamond, yet the Pelicans ugly behavior marred the whole proceedings. In the fourth in ming Bowman struck out and made sev- eral unnecessary remarks to Keefe, when the latter bowed his head and politely said: "That'll cost you five, and l don't want anything more from you"
 In the eighth Houseman got funny, let a pitched ball hit him and went to first, but Rappold threw to Beecher at second as he tried to steal and Keefe called him out for running out of the line and around the bag. MT. Manager Powell came up to the umpire with blood in his eyes and tried the bluff act as usual, and 1t cost him double cross, commonly known as twenty, and he was told to play ball It was his time up and he sulked around but the plucky umpire pulled his ticker and soon brought the noted kicker to time
 Umpire Keefe has had experiences be- fore with the manager of,the champions, and yesterday he reminded them very forcibly of the fact that he was ruler of the roost," and held them in hand very well.
 Fricken and Smith were the opposing pitchers, and each held the others com pany down very handily. The strike outs were even, as were the bases on balls though the visitors got in scratch hit in the second which gave Smith the advantage.
 Fuller had the misfortune in the last half of the first inning to get his right thumb knocked out of place and had to pull off the mask and protector, Rappold relieving him. This weakened the teams batting strength very materially and more than likely lost the game for the locals, as Fuller is timely hitter and comes to the scratch at the call, while Rappold is little uncertain with the stick. The 1atter's arm, however, has gotten in shape and stolen. bases are rare with him behind the bat.
 Trafnor opened the game for the locals by striking out on the first three balls over the plate, the first and second being called. Fuller reached first on KnoxS error Katz fouled out to third and Ryan went out from second to first
 Houseman for the visitors went out from third to first. Powell hit grounder to Beecher, who fumbled and in recover ing threw wild to first. Houston singled, advancing Powell, both scoring on Knox's double. Bowman flew out to left. York singled, scoring Knox, Dowie flew out to third
 In the fourth Birmingham got in two runs. Katz singled. Ryan hit to short, who let it get away, both he and Katz getting safe. Beecher sacrificed, ad- vancing both runners. Cedar hit to short and Houston's second error in the inning allowed Katz to score. Adams struck out. Gorton singled and the bags were covered. Frieken waited with exceeding patience and got free pass, forcing in Ryan. Trainor retired the side on pop fly to third.
 The fans became much encouraged when the visitors failed to increase their lead in their half of the fourth.
 In the fifth the visitors scored on Smiths double and Powells single.
 In the sixth, with two men out, Gorton singled and stole second. It was hoped the rallying point had come, but Fricken hit an ugly liner to right. which looked good for two bases, but little Billie York, of You! your fame got to it before it hit terra firma. Trainor came next and much was expected, though little was re- ceived. as he poped fly to short and out
 It was all over then, and everyone was satisfied at having seen a good game, though they naturally would have pre- ferred the score reversed.
 Following is the box score and sum-