The age-herald., 1901-06-25
Lost in the Eighth.

. Long, lank, tacky Tom Parrott won yes- terday's game for Nashville in the eighth inning by swatting the ball to the fence with two men on bases. At the beginning of that inning Birmingham was one run in the lead and two men had been re- tired when Parrott broke the hearts of the fans with his good willow. It was his first and only hit of the game and the next preceding time at bat he had wrenched his back vainly stabbing at the sphere. He had made two intellectual swipes at the ball and had fouled it off once. Wilhelm f1oated the ball across the plate and it was all over.
 Birmingham tried hard to tie the score in the ninth and succeeded in getting man as far as second base, but he died there, and Birmingham lost [. and the tin horns and knockers were happy.
 Martin was the star of the game. His base running was the best seen on the local diamond this year. He sprinted around the bases at a pace that would make him an easy winner in the Wash ington Derby and set the bleachers and grand stand wild by running home on fly ball caught thirty feet back of sec ond base
 He also participated in the prettiest double play of the season. In the seventh inning, with one out and Reitz on third, he caught a fly from Kennedy's bat while running at top speed, and without check ing himself made a perfect throw to home plate in time to catch the runner six feet away.
 Lok leo fAo In five times up he made three singles and double
 The game was one of the prettiest con tests of the season and kept the specta- tors wrought up to a high tension until the last Birmingham man was retired in the ninth.
 Wilhelm pitched a splendid game, but unfortunately, with the assistance of l Umpire York, was charitable at times and this proved his undoing. Of the three men who were given bases on balls one scored and one of the other three runs was made by a man who went to first by being hit with pitched ball. With all that he pitched great game and it was l hard luck that he could not land a vic- tory.
 The game opened with Birmingham at bat. Moss, as usual, worked the pitcher for a pass, was sacrificed to second by Martin and stole third. He was retired at the home plate however, when he tried to score on Veitch's grounder to short Leidy wolked and Veitch was forced out at third.
 | The locals made their first run in the third on Ballantyne's error, Leidy's out, short to first, and LaRocque's single to right
 In the seventh Martin, first up, bunted along first base line and by great sprint ing ran it out. He went to third on Veitchs out, second to first, and scored when Goodenough caught a fly from Leidy's bat .Goodenough was within thirty feet of second base when he caught the ball, but Martin beat out his throw by five feet.
 The locals tallied their last run in the eighth and temporarily took the lead. Kalkhoff, first up, hit for two sacks and was sacrificed to third by Wilhelm and | scored on Moss drive to short. Kennedy I threw to the home plate to catch Kalk- hoff, but by fast running and great slide he crossed the plate before Fisher | got hold of the ball. In this inning Mar tin was given life at first on a fielder's S choice and on two pitched balls stole sec l ond and third bases
 The visitors tallied twice in the first inning. Kennedy hit for two bases. Wiseman and Abbaticchio were easy outs, pitcher to first but Fisher was a good waiter and walked. Both he and Kennedy scored on Goodenough's long single to left.
 The next six innings were fruitless, but in the eighth they made two more and won the game. Wiseman connected safe-