The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-12
GAMES TODAY.

Shreveport at Birmingham.
New Orleans at Chattanooga.
Memphis at Nashville.
Little Rock at Atlanta.
Little bunts and singles
Line drives and long flies,
Mixed with rotten fielding
Makes the yellow rise.
Lord Bacon.
"Dere's nuttin' to It," croaked a dimin-
utive bare-legged rooter yesterday, wen
a big bunch of stiffs goes up and plunks
de ball out fur fifteen hits and cant
squeeze but five guys across de rubber
dere's sum'un rotten or de hoodoo has
got to be murdered" q
Wisely but crudely spoke this young
man and no one who was not at West
End Park yesterday afternoon can fully
appreciate the force of his words.
Pretty line drives were cracked out
with a delightful regularity. but just as
luck seemed coming Coal Baronward,
misplay and. sometimes a double play
broke the combination. Birmingham did
not play up to her usual standard, but
with all that it seems almost inconceiv-
raps and fail to score but five runs. 1t
was not stupid base running and the
only thing that is left to shoulder the
burden is old Hard Luck" Frank
Smith and Sorber are going out to the
grounds early this morning and dig up
huge crawfish in left field which they
say is certainly the hoodoo.
New Men In the Game.
The two new men, Brouthers and Os-
teen, contrary to expectations, played
yesterday, and the former did excellent
work Out of five times up he located Mr..
Fisher for four beautiful singles, and his
beautiful record was only surpassed by
Billie Smith, who lined out three safe
ones out of three times up. In the eighth
inning Billie was hurt by a long fly and
had to retire from the game or he would
have played 1t clear across the board.
Osteen at short showed up fairly well
in practice. but during the game he
seemed to suffer from stage fright and
fell down on comparatively easy plays.
His ability as an infielder should not be
judged from yesterdays performance,
as he was very nervous, and it is said
played before the largest crowd he had
ever faced. Osteen should not get dis
heartened over his mistakes but go at it
again. The crowd is with him and Bir-
mngham is not the town to turn a man
down until he has had a fair chance.
From his recent work in Charlotte this
young player can with a little practice
deliver the proper class of goods, and the
to oil III ali
In the first inning LAWYER was hit by
pitched oall, and successive hits by
Brown and Brouthers showed two men
acl oss the plate.
Shreveport Gets Busy.
In the second Shreveport got real busy.
and with but one hit and few misplays
succeeded in scratching in three runs. IL.
the next inning Brandt was pounded
hard and two more runs resulted. Brandt
got wild in the third, and this, coupled
with a hit showed in two more. Beaver
was substituted in the sixth, and though
he pitched excellent ball the infield con-
tinued the ragged work and three more
runs were tailed. After this it was all
over with the Shreveporters as well as
the Coal Barons.
Birmingham scored two In the fifth on
hits by Uhler. Brouthers. Blue and Billie
Smith. and another in the sixth on sin
giles by Lawler ana Uhler.
All of these hits were clean line drives,
and scratch hitting was unknown to the
Blueblrds. 1t was hard game to lose.
end the only way to make it up is to
keep up the terrific bombardment this
afternoon
Beaver will probably go in for Bir-
mingham today and Reust will cfficate
for the visitors.
A Telegram fl ON President Nicklin last
nj 10Th or uo1 NO
longer manipulate the indicator here, and
Joe Burke will umpire this afternoons
game
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