The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-10
GAMES TODAY.
Little Rock at New Orleans.
Memphis at Shreveport.

A base on balls, lucky hit. three
stolen bases and a pair of errors gave
/ Chattanooga three runs in the first in
ming yesterday, and with this handicap
against them the Coal Barons failed to
get the lead and died hard death in the
ninth.
1t was a crowd-catching game from the
start and not a spectator left the grounds
with the feeling that he had not received
his moneys worth. Wilhelm's unlucky
bunch made rally after rally, but when
on the eve of success a foul to the catcher
or a fiuke fly to a baseman sent them to
other end of the score board.
After the first inning and in fact dur
ing the entire game Frank Smith pitched
great ball, and it was a pitchers bat
tie from the jump, as isis" Hopkins kept
the blue birds guessing. Between the
twirlers the hits were equally divided, but
Smith probably got the best end of the
argument, as he succeeded in striking
out seven of the visitors. while Hopkins
only induced one Birmingham batter to
hit where the ball was not.
DIESEL Hit the Ball Hard.
DIESEL found no difficulty in mixing up
with the Chattanooga benders, and out
of four shots. cracked out TWO singles
and a beautiful two-sacker His COM
| rades were unable to back him up, how
ever, and though Brown laced out three
drives that looked good, big Ike Dur
rett managed to spear them, and the
game was saved for Chattanooga.
Birmingham went to the bat first and
| failed to materialize. Molesworth OPEN
ed up for the Mountaineers with a strike
out and the crowd felt good. Meyers
came next with base on balls and went
to third on Miller's single Miller then
| took possession of second base and Dur
rett hit to short. Reitz fielded the ball
| homeward but Brown failed to hold it
and Meyers scored. Durrett then stole
second and Miller scored on Reitzs fun
BILE of Brennens grounder. Giligan
walked and Durrett scored on Spratt's
/ long fly to Billie Smith. Roth flied out
and the agony was temporarily suspend
ed.
There was nothing doing until the
sixth inning when the Mountaineers
again counted by three successive hits
| and a wild pitch, which knocked two
Birmingham did her first business in
the sixth inning when, after Leidy had
smashed a drive into Durretts hands
Billie Smith cracked out three Dagger
| and scored on Cavender's grounder to
Hopkins. who fielded the ball to first in
stead of home.
Desperate Rally In Eighth.
In the eighth the Coal Barons made a
desperate rally and the crowd was with
| them. Lawler began negotiations by rap
ping the ball over second base. Leidy hit
to Spratt who attempted to catch Lawler
at second and both runners were safe.
Billie Smith hit a slow one which Spratt
captured in time to throw him out at
first, but not in time to prevent the adj
vance to second and third. Lavender came
up with blood in his eye and shot hot
one amidst Red Gillgan's legs, and in
the mix-up Lawler scored while Cavern
der was called safe on first. On the first
ball Lavender stole second, and with
second and third occupied, only a hit
was needed to tie the score. Hutton lined
out two that unluclSily fell foul, and in
an attempt to do it again he foued out,
and 1t was up to Brown. The work.
ing catcher did his best and cracked one
over Durrett's head but the big left
fielder went back after It, and by a jump
robbed Brown of the hit and Birmingham
of the game.
! In the ninth DIESEL led or with a two
Dagger and advanced to third on Reitz' S
| grounder, but short rollers by f. Smith
and LAWYER closed the deal, and the
crowd went home in tears.
The Coal Barons leave today for
Nashville. where they play three games.
The team plays nine games away from
! home, then returns for fifteen and the
! season in Birmingham will be ended