The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-17
CLEVELAND BEATS
THE FISHERMEN
Big Leaguers Have Better Luck
in Nashville.
WIN BY A RUNAWAY SCORE
Coal Barons Further Strengthened BY
Signing of BaIIintyne, Nashville's
Star Catcher of Last Sea-
son-Game Today.
WIN BY A RUNAWAY SCORE

The official announcement by the Biz
mingham Rooters Club that Halter has
a strong team has been fully confirmed
by a story from Nashville, which tells OF
the defeat of Fishers champions by the
Cleveland American Leaguers The Blue
birds won an easy victory Of IA to 5, and
in fact Nashville never saw daylight I'M
til the eighth inning, when they piled up
six runs. The following Is an account OF
the game:
Nashville, Tenn, April 16.-(Special)-
After being Jared to perfection in a rail-
way wreck down the Louisville and Nash
Vile road the Cleveland Bluebirds fiut-
tered into Nashville in time to take a
game from Newt Fishers aggregation
this afternoon, defeating the Nashville
men by a score of IA to s.
Dummy" Taylor did the twirling for
the Cleveland team, pitching five innings
of good ball, Moore holding down the rub
Der for the last four innings. Beaver
pitched for Nashville. The game was slow
and uninteresting, the feature being the
batting of the visitors. Schreck lined out
two singles and two three-baggers.
Score bv Innings RHE.
Cleveland -. ....S 0 900 0 Ola Ia
Nashville =. .....o110 000 o. 10
Attendance 900.
Three more games will be played here
by the Cleveland team. This morning the
whole bunch Of players were In the Vesu-
bule of their train chatting when the en-
CINE smashed into a freight car and scat
tered the players over the seats. They
escaped injury.
Strong In the Box.
Laying aside all doubtful propositions
there is one thing certain Halter mas
the best corps of pitchers the fast league
teams have yet encountered in the South.
The heavy hitting Clevelanders were at
the mercy of Smith and Campbell in the
two games played here and the total
of seven runs in two games Is the best
evidence of that fact. In one game with
Nashville the Cleveland team made twice
as many runs as they did In two games
here. Five errors in one game in Nash
vile against four in two games in Biz
mingham goes to show that the Coal Ba-
rons will cut some figure in the fielding
records.
Armour went away from Birmingham
sore at his htters but since change
in pitchers was encountered in Nashville.
he may have another thought coming.
The truth of the matter Is that Campbell,
especially, was just trifle too strong for
the Bluebirds and the Birmingham men
knew how to play the game behind him.
The exhibition in Nashville yesterday
may put a decided change on the numer-
GUS predictions that New Orleans and
Nashville would lead the league. With
the Cleveland games for comparison
Birmingham has made decidedly better
showing than either of the predicted lead
ers. Atlanta made a fine showing against
Boston, much stronger team, and II
now looks as If the Coal Barons will have
to look to Georgia for her strongest rival
unless Little rock and Memphis do some
thing surprising.
Sign Another Catcher.
The Coal Barons were materially
strengthened yesterday by the announce
ment that Ballentyne. one of Nashville's
last year stars, had affixed his name to a
Birm ingham contract. The heavy hitting
catcher, first baseman and all around
player will arrive today Ballentyne was
one of Nashville's best men last year and
1t is said was turned loose by Fisher
on account of personal differences only.
He will assist Brown In the catching and
may be utilized in the field and else
where in case of a pinch. He played
first base last year besides catching on
his regular turn In the latter part of
the season he played shortstop regularly.
To Play This Afternoon.
The Coal Barons will have a game
with the Briarfield amateur team this
afternoon and the men from the mining
town promise to put up the best argyll
ment yet encountered, with the exception
of Cleveland. The game will be called at
$3.50 o'clock and the Briarfield men say
they will make a desperate attempt to
win McKenna will be in the box for
the Coal Barons and Manager Haller will
attend to the receiving end of the bat
terry.
The lineup of Briarfield for today is
as follows Catcher, Herbert Bell; pitcher,
R. e. Aenis; first base w. w. Camp;
second base, Louis Campbell; third base,
Clay F. Espey; shortstop, Harry Webb;
right field, DR.. Wilkinson center field,
E. w. McDonaugh; left field, j. A. Nc
Donough.,
Games Played Yesterday.
At Chapel Hill, N. C.-University of
North Carolina. 8: University of Georgia