The age-herald., 1901-08-17
TOMMY G|LLEN
 DID TIE BUSINESS Was in a Bad Hole But Saved
 a Great Game SELMA PLAYED HARD BALL Not an Error Is chalked Against Them But They Couldn't Handle MT. GiIlen at the Proper Time,
 and They Lost.
Southern League Standing.
Yesterdays Games.
GAMES YESTERDAY.


 At Birmingham - Birmingham, 2, Sell ma, l.
 At Little Rock-Little Rock, 15; Shreve- port, 2.
 At Nashville = Nashville . Chattanooga game postponed on account of rain. . At Memphis = Memphis New Orleans game postponed on account of rain.
 Slippery grounds. wet ball. nor any other difficulty could not have kept the bollermakers down yesterday. for they went out to West End to win that game and they did so to the prettiest tune yet seen on the local diamond
 Cribbins and Gillen both kept the hits pretty well scattered, but Birmingham hit at the proper time twice, and that tells the tale. Considering the wet grounds the fielding of both teams was excellent and the errorlesss record put up by the Cen tral City aggregation shows how Fender has recently improved the team.-
 In the last inning Tommy Gillen got .in a bad hole, and it looked dark and " for the boilermakers. Tommy oiled up his wheels, however, and figured out pretty little scheme that worked like three shell monte. Cribbens hit the ball to center, and on an excusable error by LaRocque. Bryan had reached the initial corner On Leightons out the runners were respec- lively anchored on second and third, and that heavy hitting Fender waltzed up for a smash. Tommy had his weather eye open and at first motioned Culver to step aside and take four bad ones Pop La Rocque down on first scented danger even at that, and the foxy Tommy proceeded to throw four balls to first bag and the umpire told Fender to walk. This filled up the bases with one out. Gnadinger then walked up and Tommy was ready with a bender. The man whose name Is hard to spell rapped a slow one to Kal- koff and Fender and the batter were doubled up retiring the side and winning the game.
 1t was a pretty slick piece of work, and though Bob Fender got sore, we needed that game and just couldn't help 1t.
 The run getting started In the first inning and ended in the second. After that the nest was rapidly filled with goose eggs and it was nip and tuck to the finish
 Moss started things off by going out from Stouch to Fender. Martin followed, and to the horror of the fans sawed out three large slices of atmosphere. McDivitt had something up his sleeve and let 1t out by sending the damp ball over second bag for single Veitch followed with a line drive toward the big blue shoe sign that looked good for three bags The ground was damp and all he could do was to stop on second and await developments while McDivitt registered. The great LaRocque then created a sensation by striking out. This Is about his third performance of that kind this season.
 Bryan made good start for Selma by cracking a beauty out to left field just :n- side the foul line and was advanced to second on Leighton's sacrifice. Fender hit to the pitcher and was thrown out at first while Bryan went to third, yelling for his followers to Hay on the timber" Culver got a nasty ball that slipped out of his