The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19


 After more than two hours of exciting wrangling Newt Fisher and his band of headliners packed up their baseball ma chinery and started home with two more Birmingham scalps dangling at their belts.
 The final result was 10 to 1 in favor of the Fishermen, but the crowd and play CTS took little interest In the contest after the sixth inning when Delehanty, who had cracked out a beautiful three base drive was called out by Umpire Kelly for not touching first base
 As the young second baseman was or dered away from third the excited crowd was simply stunned and 1t was several seconds before they could realize the situation When the force of the decision dawned upon them several lusty-lung rooters leaped from their seats in the smoker and bleachers and a grand rush was made for the center of the diamond. where the umpire stood smilingly await ing their coming.
 At the foul line Haller and Lauzon met the infuriated fans. and by hard work
 
 them to desist from disorder. Several po- licemen walked out to protect MT. Kelly, and the crowd gradually fell back to their seats, where they greeted every other decision with cries of derision.
 Many Left the Park.
 A large number disgusted at what they thought rank decision left the rly 1Ir k4 ax.lx afterwards Delehanty came up to the home plate and to the crowd acknowl- edged that he had not touched the base. This had little effect however, as the crowd thought he made the statement solely for the purpose of maintaining peace. ......
 The Birmingham players say the um- pire's decision was correct and that he did the only thing he could under the circumstances notwithstanding the seeming insjustice of It. Whether the de- cision was just or not 1t would not do to make them often as the crowd was thoroughly displeased and many public ly stated that they would never enter the park again this season.
 After the game crowd waited outside for th, umpire and greeted him with tcers and all kinds of epithets. Kelley showed his nerve. however, and refused to eithtr change his decision or receive protection of the police to the car line. Later another dispute arose with the scorer as to a man batting out of his time. After long discussion Fisher con Vinced the scorer that he was wrong and the game dragged along without any further trouble.
 Rank Playing the Feature.
 The playing of the clubs was of minor importance yesterday, but 1t might be well to explain that 1t was one of the 1ankest exhibitions of ball playing ever witnessed in Birmingham. The Coal Barons made a few mere errors than runs and consequently Nashville made few more runs than errors. Kruger did miserable work at short and Delehanty was bad at St cond, though he fully re- deemed himself by lis hc;.vy work with the stick. Kruger seemed to bs badly frightened and was slow in Judgment. Birminghams errors were responsible for five of Na.hville's runs.
 Campbell started in to pitch but was touched Up for three-bagger and two two-baggers in the first inning, netting Nashville two runs. Later in the game Frank Smith relieved him and pitched good ball, though errors behind him cost several runs.
 Campbell ard Delehanty led the bat ting of both teams. The little south-paw pitcher laced out three-bagger a two basger end a single, while Delehanty footed up a three-base hit and two sin gles.
 Haller went in to catch hut was hit on the arm by foul tip and had to retire in favor of I,auzon. There were no feat ures to the game except the disorder and wrangling and the scientific ease in mak- ing errors
 The game is told in figures as follows: