Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-21
hiding the ball twice out of three times

finding the ball twice out of three times
up.
For the first time this week Katz was
in the game and got five put outs.
Fuller is still on the bench with an ugly
hand. Had he been behind the bat the
result might have been a triffe different
as Marion had three passed balls and an
error.
Indications point to settlement of the
matter which kept King Rusie out of the
box all season. 1t will be remembered
that he was fined by Friedman in excess
of the limit, and Rusie refused to pay.
The order was given pay or no play
and Rusie accepted the latter PROPOSE
ton. The matter will be heard by the
league directors, and the general inn
preston is that a verdict favorable to
the big twirler will be given. In the
event such is the case legal proceedings
will be instituted by the aggrieved pitch
err for salary due for lost time not OF his
own accord.
Ex-Manager McCloslSey of the Louis
villes is keeping the owners of that citys
franchise in the national league in hot
water. 1t seems he has a season con-
tract and insists on having his salary
paid, but the management as persistent
ly refuse to come to the scratch Nc is
DESTROYS of signing with minor league
team for the remainder of the season,
but so long as he persist in holding his
contract over the heads of the Louisville
give him his release. The matter Will
wind up in court of law.
The Sporting News has evidently got
ten a little mixed in its Southern league
standing. In the current issue 1t has
Birmingham in third place at the end of
June 10, with forty-seven games played
and twenty-five winnings, with Atlanta
fourth with fifty games played and
twenty-one winnings. How the sport
ing editor could have gotten himself so
INo,l ic IY1Ff
standing of the two clubs on June IA was
as follows:
Won. Lost P. CT
Atlanta At19nins,s am. 49,. % y y 4 4s9
1t would be wise for the gentleman
to revise the standing and give the Gate
City aggregation their just deserts.
In the Caught On the Fly" column
of the Sporting News appears the para
graph: but seven balls were pitched in
the fifth inning of one of the Philadelphia
Cleveland games, four by Cuppy and
three by Carsey." In the opening game
on May % of the series between Birming-
ham and Montgomery Sheehan only de-
| livered three balls in the seventh inning
and the Birminghams retired, while in
| the ninth inning for the visitors McDon-
| aid got the credit of doing the same thing.
Come again; you're little short.
| Speaking of rapid transit, Adams, one
| of Birmingham's local pitchers, has so far
| On May 2, in the last game of the Biz
| mingham-Columbus series, in the five in
| nfngs played only seventeen men faced
| Adams. OF these only two reached first
| base and these on errors by Fuller, three
| struck out and none connected with the
! sphere for even measly single. And yet
| there are some eranks who persist In say
ing he is not "a pitcher. By the way, too,
Adams had only arrived in Birmingham
| at noon that day, and hadn't ten minutes
| practice with the catcher.
| Another record game for the long pitch
| er was in the game with Montgomery on
| May 27.- Mcdonald went into the box.
| and was hit freely from the jump. In the
| middle of the third inning, after being
| touched for a single, double and triple,
| two runs scored, no one out and a man on
| third, Adams relieved the little Irishman
| OF the next three up two famed and one
| got fielder's choice, the man on third re-
| naming there. In the remainder of the
| game he allowed only four hits and added
| three more strike outs to his list.
| Sparks, too, is not by any means a
| SLOUGH. In the June game with Column
| bus, after the visitors had scored two
| earned runs in the seventh inning, he
| struck out three men and In the follow
| ing inning repeated the performance,
| giving one man a base on balls and no
| hits.
With all these records Fricken, taking
| him all in all, is the king of twirlers of
| the Southern league. Cool heady and al
| ways in the game, he stands in the box
| chewing gum, never finching when a
| double or triple is lined out, Instead of
| getting ratified, it seems to steady him
| the more. In the May 2S game with Mo-
| bile only four hits were made off him,
| only one present was recorded and six
| strike-outs were credited to him, and only
/ two men ever reached third. Two days
| later he again went in the box against
| the same aggregation, allowed only five
| hits, struck out seven men and gave only
| two presents. OF the two runs scored
| by the visitors neither was earned. on
| the 4th instant he faced the Columbus
| team and allowed only four hits, struck
out four men and gave up two presents,
earned. In this game out of three times
| at the bat he got in single and double
| and made successful sacrifice. In the
| opening of the recent series with New
| Orleans he let the leaders down with only
| six hits, struck out six and gave up only
| one present. In the opening game with
| Atlanta on the 18th he allowed only seven
| hits, struck out four men and led the bat
| ting on both teams, with two doubles and
| a single out of four times at bat. His op-
ponents got two runs, neither of which
were earned.
By the above the local fans can see
that Birmingham is not weak in the box,
but has always needed a backstop. Had
the management ceen this, as others did,
earlier in the season the Bluebirds would
| have been roosting on a peg higher than
| that at fourth place.