The age-herald., 1901-05-19
Shreveport at New Orleans. Little Rock at Memphis.

Little ROCK at Memphis.
 Yesterdays victory gives Birmingham
 game and a half lead on New Orleans
 and puts her within half game of Mem
 phis and one game of Chattanooga Nash
 vile and Shreveport lost, but Little Rock
 won. The teams change tomorrow, Chat
 tanooga coming to Birmingham, Nash
 vile going to Selma. Shreveport to New
 Orleans and Little Rock to Memphis.
 Birmingham played better ball yester-
 day afternoon than Nashville and won
 the last game of the series with the
 greatest ease. Hill, whom Fisher put in to pitch, was batted all over the lot, be-
 ing hit safely 9 times for a total of 30
 bases. Gillen pitched splendid game for
 the locals, and batted like hend, mak-
 ing single, double and two triples in
 five times up. He scored three times and
 brought two more men across the plate.
 While he was touched up for IS hits only
 one of this number was for more than
 one base, and. with the exception of two
 innings, he kept them so well scattered
 that runs did not result.
 Giilen was easily the star of the game,
 and every time he went to bat after the
 first inning he received an ovation. He
 pulled himself out of several tight holes,
 and at all times held the Nashville men
 at his mercy when hit meant runs and possibly victory for the visitors The first time he faced Hill he swatted the ball square on the trade mark for three
 bases. bringing in two men, and the next three times up he landed safely on the ball. It was a great day for him, and when the game closed he was the hero | of all the fans.
 The hoodoo had decamped. A squad of rooters on the slag pit were seen busily | digging a hole back of center field, and | it is said the hoodoo was buried there | The fans hope 1t will not be resurrect- l ed.
 Gettinger made the sensational catch I of the game. In the second inning, with | two men on bases and two out, Wiseman, the hard hitting right fielder of the vis- itors, sent the ball up against the left | field fence, but by a magnificent run with l his back to the ball Gettinger, by jump I ing. barely got his good right hand on | the sphere, and it was all day with the S@AAAo
 each other to the rubber. In the last in-
 ming, with two out and one man on base,
 Reitz dropped a loop near the carriages back of third base, which Mauch caught while on a dead run. Mauch also distin- guished himself by running out bunt that fell in front of the plate in the second inning. Leidy made four hits out
 of six times up, and stole second in great style in the fifth.
 Every man on the team was in the game every minute of the two hours it took to
 administer a defeat to the leaders. It was a game that makes the average fan hug himself with delight, and the best or all was that the home team came off with
 another victory snugly tucked away. Manager Mills sent Sullivan behing the
 hat and Culver to right field, and the change seemed to work well. Sullivan caught a good game but was off on his throwing, the millers getting credit for | six stolen bases.
 How the Game Was Won. | The visitors were sent to the bat first and made one run. Abbaticchio. the first man up, hit the ball past second for a single and stole second. In sliding to sec ond base he fell on his right foot, twist ing the ankle. Time was called while the players of both teams went to his aid He was so badly injured that he had to
 retire from the game, Lang taking his
 place on the base. Lang went to third on Wiseman's hit to short and tried to score on Fishers grounder to second, but was thrown out at the home plate. A wild hitch advanced Fisher to third and he then stole home while Gillen was deliver ine the ball. Goodenough singled, was forced to second on Parrott's base on
 balls and stole third, where he was left on Lang's foul fly to catcher.
 Birmingham was blanked in the first but scored three runs in the second. Sulli- van hit for a single past second. stole second and was sacrificed to third by Mauch. who beat out his bunt, and both scored on Gillen's three-bagger far over center fielder's head. Moss went out on a grounder to first and Leidy singled to left field. GiIlen scoring. veitch hit to right field for two and LaRocque walked. fill- ing the bases. The best Culver could do, however, was to send a grounder to sec Op0 ana ne was Tctifeo dl iiSt. Three more runs were added in the third. Gilien hit to center for a single and Moss to right for a double. Sullivan and Mauch scoring and Gillen crossing | the plate a minute later on Moss double l to right field. Leidy made safe hit. but veitch and Gettinger retired the side on | infeld hits.
 The locals made one run in the fifth on l Gillen's double and Moss single. | Two men crossed the plate in the sixth | on LaRocque's single. Mauch's double l and Gillens triple.
 l Four moro runs were added in the ninth. LaRocque went out from short to first. l Culver, Sullivan and Mauch each hit for
 a single. Culver and Sullivan scoring on l . wild throw and Aeuch crossing the