Birmingham state herald., 1896-05-30
Standing
National League Standing.

By a score of 15 to 5 the locals got two straight games off the visitors from the Gulf City.
 Brookfield, the twirer for the Oysters, was an easy mark for the locals and fifteen, with a total of twenty-two bases, and six bases on balls, aided by three er- TOTS, did the work.
 Sparks was in the box for the locals and broke the strike-out record on the home grounds by flaming ten of the visit ing heavy hitters. only two of the nine missing strike out. In the third inning he retired the side by flaming three of the players
 It was feared by many that the absence of Walsh, who was one of the best field CTS and hitters in the league, would weaken the locals to such an extent that defeat was certainty, but the results are evidence that one man does not al- ways win the game. Mckenzie went to right. field and Trainor covered second, while Fuller went behind the bat and Beecher to short, and these, with Katz, Ryan, Gorton and Cedar in their regular places, made fine showing, every one fielding his position admirably and with only one almost excusable error. While the visitors found Sparks for eleven hits, they were badly scattered and did not count for much.
 - The game started with Trainor at the bat. He hit to pitcher, and out at first Fuller flew out to first, and Katz retired the side from second to first.
 Dobbs for the visitors, got a present. as did Buschman. Both advanced on a wild pitch, and it looked a little ugly but Sparks settled down to ball tossing He struck out Wiseman, the heavy hit ter, and Fisher flew out to Katz, who doubled Buschman at third; but Dobbs scored before Buschman was cut off.
 The second inning opened with Ryan up, who hit to first and out Mckenzie went to first on being hit by the pitcher, and scored on Beecher's double to left field. Cedar, after waiting, got present, stole second, and he and Beecher came In on Sparks single to right. Gorton struck out, and Trainor went out from third to first
 Casey waltzed to the plate for the vis- itors and singled to right, going to second on Wittrock's sacrifice. Clifford hit to center, and Casey was thrown out at the plate from Gorton to Beecher and from him to Fuller King struck out, retiring the side
 Here the locals had a lead of two runs, and the score remained unchanged until the sixth inning. In the third inning Sparks struck out Brookfield, Buschman and Wiseman. In the fourth he struck out Fisher and Clifford, and in the fifth he deceived Brookfeld again.
 Brookfed struck out Cedar in the fourth and Fuller in the fifth.
 Ryan was the first man up in the sixth and went out from short to first. Me Kenzie went to first on Casey'S error and stole second. Beecher got a free pass. Cedar hit safe to center scoring McKen- zie and advancing Beecher. Gorton got a present and the bases were filled. Sparks struck out. sTrainor hit high to center, who dropped it, and Beecher and Godar scored, GOrton going to third. Trainor made a neat steal Of second and scored on Fuller's hit, as also did Gorton. Katz singled to right, advancing Fuller, but Ryan retired the side on short line fly to second, with five runs in and two men on bases. The visitors went out in one two, three order.
 The locals did nothing in the seventh. Clifford hit safe. King hit fielder's choice to Ryan, who cut off Clifford at second. Brookfield singled, advancing King. who stole third. Dobbs hit to sec ond and out at first, King scoring. Busch- man went out on difficult fly to short.
 Intbe eighth Gorton went out from third to first. Sparks got walk, and scored on Tra.nor's triple to the right field fence, he scoring on Fullers hit to third and out at first Katz singled. Ryan hit to short, who doubled Katz at second.
 Wiseman got to first on Beecher's ques- tionable error the only one in the game), and went to third on Fishers two-bagger. Casey flew out to r.ght, and Wiseman scored on the throw in. Fisher was cut off at third by good fielding of Wittrock's single 10 right Mckenzie fielding to the plate and Fuller returning 1t to third in sharp order. Clifford hit foul fly back of third, which Godar captured in one of the most brilliant catches of the day.
 In the ninth Mckenzie hit for two bases and stole third. Beecher fouled out to the catcher. Cedar went to first on balls, and stole second. Gorton's nit was due, and he sent long, low liner past second for two bases, scoring Mckenzie and Cedar. Sparks hit to second and out at first, Cor ton going to third. Trainor singled, SCOT ing Gorton, he going to third on FulIer's double Trainor scored on Katz's single to right. Ryan hit for two bases, ad- vancing Katz to third, both dying on the line on McKenzie's hit to short and out at first. This was the second tune dur1ng the game that the locals sent ten m&n to the bat, scoring five runs each time. King got first on balls and stole second, going to third on an overthrow and SCOT ing on Brookfield's double. Dobbs famed