The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-10

There was little team, which 1t would
seem
Cut no figure in the trottin
When ii was good 1t was very good
And when 1t was bad 1t was rotten.
Shakespeare
For two long lonesome hours a yell
low haze enshrouded the West End ball
park yesterday afternoon and sickened
stomaches forced many to leave ere the
drop curtain had proclaimed the last
act of the farce
To attempt to describe the work of the
Coal Barons would be a Herculean task
which no ordinary man would dare at
tempt. To them the word ginger" was
unknown, but In justice to the guardians
of the Stag pile 1t might be said their
Indifference was superinduced by the
dizzy efforts of Umpire Strauss In the
very first innings he took hitch in the
home teams progress and rank base de-
cision allowed the Urdertakers to begin
scoring. The Blue Birds then lost hope
and their chances o. winning were all
up.
Frank Smith pitched good game and
In many instances it would have been a
winner had the inhelders backed him up
Instead they let slow grounders go for
safe hits, and when they did get hold
of the ball, sent 1t cavorting around the
lot while the gentlemen from Chickasaw
Bluff ran the basis on schedule.
Beat Out Blunt Hits.
In one inning three bunt hits were
beat out on account of poorfielding. and
| then grounder to the infield was thrown
wild allowing two scores when a dou-
fA1o oh
| other time the old reliable Johnnie Blue
In attempting to commit a double play
with the bases full threw wild to first al
| lowing two men to score
| Little Delehanty who has been doing
| such beautiful work at third forgot the
| location of first base and made four
wild throws which figured In the run get
| ting At second Dowie was slow and sew
| eral slow ones over the bag went safe
and hits had to be counted against the
| pitcher.
| On the other hand Breitenstein appear-
| ed in his old form and allowed but five
hits. All of these. however, were corkers
| and had the bases been occupied would
have piled up the tallies. Frank Smith
| landed for a home run and a two bag
ger, while Sox Sorber stacked up a three
| baser.
| Many of the rooters went away grum-
bling, but they all expressed confidence
| in Manager Wilhelm being able to take
| two out of three from Shreveport Yes
| terday's exhibition wouldn't have looked
quite so bad had not the fans went out
with great expectations on account of the
recent winning streak.
All Teams Have Off Days.
All teams, however, have their off
days and the unlucky Barons are deter
mined to retrieve themselves today Bill
Campbell will probably go in to pitch
against the hard hitting Shreveporters
and If he continues in his present form
there is nothing but hard luck to keep
him from winning. Umpire Strauss may
also get his eye on the ball and with
fair decisions the missing ginger will
return. Manager Wilhelm will be unable
to pitch for several days as his finger Is
badly swollen and the bone fractured as
a result of being hit by one of Henley's
speedy balls on the Fourth of July.
Since taking charge Wilhelm has con-
WINGED all baseball lovers that he knows
his business and his players as we'll as
| the crowd are with him.
| The score follows