The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-16
BARONS WALLOP
CLEVELAND TEAM
Score of 5 to 3 Tells Story of
Hard Battle
CAMPBELL WAS THE HERO
Left-Hander Strikes Out Eight of the
Big Leaguers and Holds Them
Down to Seven Scatter
ing Hits.

puzzling left-hand delivery and an
eye that kept runners frozen to first
base, made Mr.. Bill Campbell master of
the situation at West End Park yester-
day afternoon. and figuratively speaking
sent the Cleveland American Leaguers
"up in a balloon with a score of to
in favor of the "s1ag-pile Jumpers, trail
ing after them.
Campbell was a complete mystery from
the start and yielded only seven scat
tering hits besides striking out of the
men with big salaries.
Manager Armour's high-priced Blue
birds were, in the tongue of the rooter,
"up against it." and from start to finish
were kept busy looking for the benders
served from Campbells south wing. To
make matters worse Halter showed a
streak of inhospitallty in the fourth in
ming and touched off the fireworks by
rapping out a clean single to right field.
BY the time he reached first base the lit
tie spark had done the work. and in a
few minutes the air was filled with hot
grounders. long flies and line drives. The
Coal Barons were knocking at the home
plate with the regularity of a cash regis
ter. When things had quieted down the
score board showed a total budget of 5
runs and a man left on base.
The backbone was completely knocked
out of the Cleveland aggregation, and
soon thereafter Mr.. Lundbom was asked
to resign his position in the box and
Kenna the poet-pitcher, was substituted.
Al l.aJI ha
smashed out to left field fence by Smith
for two bases, he soon settled down. and
goose eggs marked the Coal Barons' on
ward career.
Balloon Stops Game.
Twenty-Five hundred rooters saw the
American Leaguers beaten square and fair
at every stage of the game and it is
pltiful tale Manager Armour has to carry
home about those southern exhibitions.
The only incident that afforded the
"Bluebirds'' momentary relief was a real
balloon with a parachute jumper attached
that scared upward in sight of the crowd.
Everybody stopped to rubber and UNI
pire Wilson had to call time until the
aeronaut had cut loose and sailed to the
eaTtn unuer MS exaggerated umbrella.
Taylor was the first Baron to face
Lundbom and his aspirations We're cut
short by Pickering who nabbed a long fly
in center Sorber was given a free pass
and stole second. He went to third on
Haller's out and was caught making a
desperate attempt to steal home. This
was one of the most daring plays ever
attempted on the local field and came in
an ace of making good.
Cleveland sent Pickering up first and
he struck out. Mccarthy flew out to
short and things looked easy Harvey,
however, after two hard jabs lined out
a clean one to left field but Campbell
showed a disposition to be foxy and
when Harvey tried to steal second he
shot the ball into first before he had
gone ten feet. Unfortunately the play was
a surprise to Dad LaRocque and he drop
ped the ball allowing Harvey to land
safe at second. Schreck then cracked out
a single and Harvey scored Bonner went
to first on an error but Bradley followed
with a strike out and the agony was
ended. The Coal Barons only got three
men up in the next inning and they went
out in one two, three order.
Made a Two-Bagger.
Thoney came up for Cleveland and laced
out a pretty two-bagger, but with two
successive outs by Bemis and Lundbom