The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-08

Little Rock at Chattanooga.
A general shakeup of hard hitting, SEN
sational fielding and rank umpiring shot
the Coal Barons up one point to the good
yesterday and gave Charley Franks band
of fast trotters a serious setback.
The old familiar hymn which has been
sung for ages under the tile of the "Um-
pire Done It. don't go when the other
side furnishes the neck, but according
to the most rabid rooters, Memphis GER
tainly had a kick coming. On balls and
strikes the Coal Barons also experienced
a few raw jolts, but on base running de-
cisions Mr.. Strauss is somewhere near
the limit and unfortunately Memphis got
the worst of 1t.
Be this as it may Birmingham might
have won at that and the best Charley
Frank can do is to take good rest and
go at them again.
Memphis, who seems to have PEN
chant for resurrecting dead ones, showed
in another ex-National Lacquer by the
name of Gus weighing to dish out his
ancient assortment of plate cutters. Mr..
weighing carried out the programme so
| far as serving them up was concerned,
but Wilhelm's crippled party fell on them
| like a ton of brick and two and three
baggers were pounded out with a de-
| lightful regularity. Brown seemed to
take an especial liking to the big league
curves and connected for two and three
bags consecutively One of the them he
tried to stretch into a complete circuit
and was thrown out at the plate.
Blue also fell upon weighing benders
and out of four times up cracked out
three safe ones that figured promiscousy
in the score sheet. This long, lanky
catcher seems to have improved since his
recent illness and not only found the
ball whenever he looked for it but caught
a beautiful game from start to finish
Uhler the Brightest Star.
The bright particular star developed In
the person of Uhler, the little Dutchman
who was sent into left to succeed the gem
tleman of kangaroo fame. Prince Henry
never received a greater ovation than
did this fiaxen-haired son of the Father
! land, and when he drove his fingered
spear into drive by Evans which bore
a three-base label the crowd for a minute
was dumfounded and then broke out into
a roar of applause. Nickels. dimes and
various kinds of coin pelted the ground
around the little fielder and it was sew
sral minutes before order could be re-
stored. This was the most remarkab BILE
catch ever made ON the West End field
Campbell pitched a pretty game from
IL
He retained his speed to the end.
Daddy LaRocque appeared in the uni
! form of an undertaken but was given the
| glad hand just the same. The old man
was pleased at his treatment but showed
his gratitude by untwisting one of Camp
bells curves and driving 1t into center
| field for two bags. This looked hard but
| the rooters stood for 1t and not an egg
was thrown. Dad is a colt again and
| Charley Frank says he is the youngest
man on the team. LaRoeque has even
| grown so frisky that his memory run
! meth not back to the time when he cap
tanned a baseball squad in the civil war
and put the enemy to flight with rocks
Those were his throwing days and his
tory records that the old man long before
| the war could cut man off at the plate
| from the furthest point of the park.
! These things occuri ed on bad days, too.
Dad made his first appearance on the
| ball field some time during the early part
of last century and has always been
| Biz mingham favorte. He says he will be
hitting over 300 when some of the young
sters of today are ensconced at the home
for the aged ard infirm And he will
Memphis Got the Start.
BY a base on balls, a sacrifice and two
singles. Memphis secured herself two
runs in the first inning and the Stag pile
could not be seen for the gloom. In the
second, however, the smoke arose and
the Coal Barons were one point to the
good. 1t happened thus:
Dowie hit for two bags but was caught
off second by Weyhing's trick of chang
ing hands. 1t is true Dowie was a little
drowsy but the play was so cute he
shouldn't be blamed. Brown then Sc
cured pass to first and went to third on
Blues single. Deaver struck out, but
Campbell delivered and Brown scored
Delehanty followed with a pretty two
Dagger and Blue and Campbell register
ed. Uhler hit a hot one to weighing, who
couldn't clamp it and Delehanty went to
third Lauzon then retired the side by
a long drive to left field which. fell di-
rectly in the hands of Valdois.
On Blues two-bagger and two long flies
this lead was cinched in the fourth inning
by one run. Memphis got busy again and