The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-19
Seventeen to one.


 Ye Gods and little fishes.
 Bases on balls, hard rapped singles, stolen bases. rank errors and few two seekers. composed the terrific lombard ment set off by PowelTs band of Pelicans yesterday, and mournfully tells the tale of the greatest Waterloo ever suffered by any team, rank amateur or professional that ever operated under the shadow of the slag pile.
 Fond hopes were shattered and the rooter who had gone on a westward jour ney to witness the downfall of New Or leans witnessed a swift clip for the cellar leadership instead of a few notches gain ed on the upward climb for the pennant
 It Is true that nothing succeeds like success and yesterdays performance would convince the most optimistic base ball observer that the contra of the famous proverb is equally true. With the retirement of Wilhelm the team simply went to pieces and things which looked bad grew worse. Denver started in to retrieve the loss but in few innings 1t was seen there was nothing doing and when runs could not be made on errors the fluttering Pelicans punched the ball Into the obscure corners of the lot and fell all over themselves darting across the plate.
 The Coal Barons struggled desperately to take a brace and overcome the lead taken by the visitors but the ginger bot tie had been emptied and nothing could stop the Waterloo.
 Stewart Was Merclless.
 While the Coal Barons were chasing line drives and fumbling infield ground CTS, Stewart showed himself merciless and continued to twist an assortment of benders that the foxiest man on the Slag Pile Guard could not unravel Alve little hits was the net result of bunch of awful swings and the lonely run scored by Billie Smith on desperate chance, explains the force of this same Stewart g argument.
 Wilhelm went in To hold the Pelicans down but the crack twirler was still suffering from his broken finger and showed himself unable to control the ball. He gave six men bases on balls and in attempting to shoot them straight over allowed several hits. Never before in his history has Wilhelm been so wild but he could not be censured as he tried to win with sore finger that could not guide the ball as ne wanted 1t. He had burst of speed that was almost phe- nomenal but the broken finger crippled his control and Denver had to be sub stituted. The new pitcher did fairly well at the start but the rankest of errors soon cost him more runs than perfect pitching could withstand.
 To attempt to describe le game would be impossible, but 1t might be well to state as a matter of record that Bir- mingham's only run was ade thusly:
 BIrmlngham's Only Run.
 After one was out Billy Smith got his base on balls and stole second. Frank Smith secured first on an error of Atz and Billie went to third. While the play CTS were examining the make of the ball which Atz hao fumbled Billie with a 'howdy do,' took chance on reaching home and tore out. He tapped the rub Der just a moment ahead of the Clark Griffith and that explains why Birming- ham scored.
 10 give a detailed account of Powells pyrotechnic display is out of the ques- tion. It was simply awful Atx assumed the star role with two base hit and a three bagger, besides sending Abbott home on a bunt The others also formed a great section of the cluster of satellites but they are too numerous to mention
 It is true all teams have their off days and Birmingham has certainly had hers Today the boys swear by all that is holy that they will simply wipe up the earth with the fellows who rubbed it in yester- day, and as baseball is a matter of un- certainty there is no reason why they shouldn't do 1t Frank Smith may pitch for the Coal Barons and Powell will shove in the famous Mir. French or Col High. of southpaw fame
 The score in figures is something like this: