Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-02
The Visitors Getting in Two Unearned Runs n the Fatal Seyenth-Montgomery to
 Be the Next Victims,
Result of Yesterdax,s Cannes.
Standing of the Clubs.

Inability of the visitors to hit Fricken and good team work with the exception of one inning, won yesterdays game for the locals by a score of to 2.
 For six innings it looked as if the Oys- ters would never see daylight, but the fatal seventh" came very near proving disastrous and the fans and rooters were on the anxious bench for few minutes. In this inning it looked as if the local in field had decided that the game should go to Mobile. Ryan, Beecher and Jones made errors, which, added to a hit by a pitched ball. allowed two runs which should never have been made.
 Fricken was in excellent form and al- lowed only five hits. with a total of seven bases, no bases on balls and only one wild pitch, which was not costly. For the first six innings the game was played by the locals with only one error, that of Cedar in fumbling Wiseman's hit which, fortunately, was not costly.
 Williamson pitched good ball. getting the best strike out record, but allowing eleven hits two of which were doubles.
 Paynter was out of the game and Fish CT played short until the seventh inning. In the last half of the sixth Hines got an ugly rap on the arm and was forced to retire. Dlllard went to first, Dobbs to short, Fisher to third and Schmidt 10 center field.
 The features of the game were Katzs and Dobbs' catches in left and right cen ter respectively. katz had a high fly from Hines in the fourth, which he judG- ed correctly. He got the ball squarely in his hands, but by some unknown means it got away from him. As it was going to the ground the great left fielder threw his ungloved hand after it and snapped it up safe and fielded it in.
 In the fifth Katz hit long high fly to right center, which looked like a two bagger, but Dobbs made magnificent running catch of it, which won great ap- plause. In the third inning he ran in from deep center and caught another diff iicult hit out by Beecher.
 In the first inning Birmingham got three men on bases, but failed to score. Trainor hit safe, stole second and went to third on Fullers sacrifice. Katz got a present, as also did Ryan. Cedar hit a grounder to third, which was felded to the plate in time to cut off Tranor. Beecher came up and with the bases still occupied a hit was hoped for but he did the handsome by flaming out.
 For the visitors Dobbs hit to first and out. billiard hit safe, went to second on a wild pitch and advanced to third on Fishers flelder's choice. Hines came up and with his known hitting qualities it looked as if the Oysters would get in at least one run, but the hit looked for never came, as the ball bounded hard and fast to second and Hines was cut off at first.
 In the second inning both sides went out in one, two, three order.
 The third opened with Trainor up. He flew out to short Hit hit long two- bagger, which was repeated by Katz, and the first run was earned. Ryan got safe on Fishers poor throw to first, Katz going to third and scoring on Lohbeck's passed ball. Cedar flew out to left and Beecher hit what promised to be Texas leaguer, but Dobbs made a grand stand play by running in and pulling it out of the weeds.
 In the fourth Gorton led off with hit, advanced on Frickens neat sacrifice. stole third and scored on Hines error of Jones' hit.
 This ended the run getting of Birming- ham until the seventh, up to which time the visitors failed to get man across