Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-03

feature of the game. OF the twenty-four
put outs he got seven, some of which re-
| quired good sprinting, especially his
catch of Bailey's fly in right center In the
sixth inning. The crowd applauded this
play to the echo.
Kehoe made magnificent catch of
Ryan's foul fly in the second inning and
received hearty applause therefor.
What about that double series? The
question was sprung last week. but died
aborning. The Fourth of July is about
here and If the magnates intend taking
steps in the matter it's high time they
were at it. Let's have the double series
by all means.
Sparks is due to do the twirlng for Blr-
mingham today, but in the event he fails
to appear H'ricken will have to go In the
box. II SO, the ex-champs will have to
do some tall guessing to find him. But
Sparks is no SLOUGH himself, and will give
them something to do in finding him.
There is no doubling the fact that
Father" German has a great ball play
ing team. With the pace they are now
setting 1t will be only matter OF month
when they will again be in their old
quarters, at the head of the column. To
get bail through their infield is like try
ing TO drive porker through rail fence.
A wide space may be found occasionally,
but very seldom. IT'S true they are
strong kiekers, but kicking answers some
times when base hits fail
The Kemper baseball team leaves this
afternoon for Cullman, where they will
cross bats with the Phenix team of that
place tomorrow.
Thrower, Gormons find, is Mobile lad,
and is said to be a capital pitcher. He
replaced Deadly yesterday afternoon and
showed up at the bat in good shape. Mr.
German thinks he has the making of
good ball player
Meara, who was Montgomery's crack
1aft No
slip In Montgomery Wednesday. The
presumption is he has gone to join Walsh.
Charley Petty, who did fine box work
for Birmingham in former days, passed
through the city yesterday EN- routa to
Columbus He will don one of the Co.
lumbus uniforms in future.
At Columbus.
Columbus, July 2.-Columbus defeated
the leaders in the pennant race this art
ernoon in q holly contested game by a
score of to 8. Until the last man was
out in the ninth inning 1t was anybody's
game, and the 700 spectators almost Went
wild with excitement. A number or
brilliant plays were made by both teams,
and the visitors lost on errors at critical
moments. The features of the game were
Lamont's work In the box and at the bat
and Powell's throw from deep left In
home. Petty an old league pitcher ar
rived this afternoon and will be in the
box tomorrow for Columbus. Wright,
Columbus right fielder, proved gutter
and refused to play today. He was
promptly released. Score:
Columbus ......0 1 1 0 1 % IL 3
New Orleans 80 0 1 0 2 0 0-S IL 6
Batteries-Lamont and King; McGin-
mis- and Gonding Umpire-Jevne.
At Atlanta.
nv, Cd
to a fair crowd this afternoon with the
Mobiles and played a game of ball few
teams in the league could beat. 1t was
just such ball as the Atlantas can play
every day in the week, but somehow such
ball as they fail to put up while away
from home. Callahan pitched a steady,
even game, while Schmidt lost what ad-
vantage he might have had by giving
ten bases on balls, but he did not receive
the same good support the Atlantas rem
dered Callahan. Paynters work at sec
ond was wretched, and many of the runs
Atlanta made were due to his errors.
Fisher got gay with Umpire Phelan and
attempted to assault him on the field. 1t
took all the two teams could do to keep
the Mobile shortstop off the umpire, at
whom he actually struck twice. Fisher
was put out of the game and while on
the bench ball was foued towards that
part of the grounds. Fisher gathered the
ball and secreted It, Efforts were made
to find the ball, but Fisher denied know
ing anything about it and refused to give
it up, One of the directors, who saw
Fisher get the ball, stepped to the front
of the box and informed Fisher that If
he did not give up the ball he would have
him arrested and taken to police head
quarters. Hines stepped forward and
took the ball from Fishers bat bag,
which Fisher had secreted under him.
Score:
r H e
Atlanta .....242 0 0 1 0 2 2-1S 10
Mobile ....O 0 1 0 0 O 0 l. IL 10
Batteries - Callahan and Fields;