The age-herald., 1901-08-09
"of that natural luck, he beats the Against the odds"
 Anthony and Cleopatra.

Old Dame Luck, with her daughters, Good and Evil. were at West End Park yesterday, and by o'clock that Jonahed bunch of Boilermakers had contributed another scalp to the lot that dangles at the belts of the Fishermen. It was not only hard luck; 1t was awful. The crowd with the "B" on their shirts put up a beautiful game and stung the ball square on the nose, but some great big Nashville fielder was always there, and the hard hitting went for naught. With all that Birmingham took an early lead by long drive over right field fence by McDevitt in the first inning after two men were out Nc. was given three cheers and a tiger, and for miles around the air was surcharged with rooters' enthusiasm. Nashville then put things even by Abba tichio taking a walk and with the delft ness of thief taking second and third bags. A hit to the infleld did the work, and the fast second baseman crossed the rubber, while the crowd wept. Things rocked along this way for several innings, until Culver negotiated with one of Sam ple's benders for clean single. On a sacrifice and two hot grounders he man aged to reach home, and it began to look easy. Keefe kept the leaders guessing until the eighth inning, when the whole scheme went up in the air. And right here will be told why the ancient and honored order of rooters came away kick ing.
 That long, 1.-the second baseman, with a tongue-twisting appellation, which is sometimes called Abba for short marched up to the rubber with instructions from Fisher to do business Abba is somewhat of a business man, and he put his eye on Keefe's right arm, which for some reason was put on the left side Keefe tried to fool him, but couldn't and big Abba drilled down to Pop LaRocques corner MT Goodenough was as good as his name and put the ball in right field, scorching the grass as 1t went. Abba went to third on the hit, and on the throw in Good enough took second.
 large black cloud was coming up on the baseball horizon and things looked squally as that cratic Tacky Tom Par rot stepped up with a stick. His Nibs Couiu uo HotHlHB better than n1t 10 Veitcb. who did some nice jockeying and saved Abba from scoring at the same time throwing Parrot out at first Ballentyne was next up and after two hard lunges In the air he smashed one against the umpire's leg and Abba and Goodenough made a bluff at scoring They were sent back to the bases, how yer, and Ballantyne went to first. This filled the bases with one man out and It was Fishers time with the bat. He which could not be handled in time to prevent the man with the South Afri- can or Dago name from scoring. This broke the hearts of the oldest inhabi- tants' and when Reitz repeated the dose and Goodenough tailed the umpire's call of balls and strikes sounded like funer- al dirge We popped up three long ones in the ninth and 1t was all off.
 During all the excitement In the eighth inning the rooters arose In their wrath and roasted the umpire on several occa- sions. Nashville got the best of 1t on was partly due thereto. The grand stand, however, seemed to think that Clark wanted to do the square thing and though the close ones caused many sad hearts the best thing to be done Is to take a new lease of life and try 1t again.
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