The age-herald., 1902-04-27
SAD STORY OF THE
 GAME IN DETAIL
Birmingham In Lead Up to the Eiqhth Inning, When the Balloon
 Scared.
BY HOMER GEORGE.

l MT. Moss, how could you do 1t? Ant you the pride of last season's bunch: ons l of the three best selected from that az. gf egation; and selected. too because oi your supposed ability to handle every
 thing in the neighborhood of short7 How
 could you make such errors and start the | given to Chattanooga by score of F to | 10 Just at the time we hnd 1t cinched ? How really. could you do 1t?
 | And Taylor. Too bad. too bad, that he l should have made his excusabie errors
 sast at the tirns inc team was becoming demoralized. They assisted in letting I Chattanooga get the lead and helped make the fans sore Also the manager and magnases who control the pay roll; l they were made sore; and may do some- | thing. Then again, they may not. Any l way. Birmingham lost.
 1 And losing? Such losing as it was, It hurts, 1t hurts so bad The story is sad | just as sad as can be- We had the game won by the safe score of to up to ths seventh inning It had been won by good hard batting. tco But then came errors. and hits by the other party, The errors were responsible for the hits. though; for one of them stopped double play. It also took the heart out of the other players and gave the Chattanoogans such cheer that they banged the ball out safe for the rext two innings-
 The game played by Birmingham was winning game. and nine times out of eleven would have won. The ball was batted all over the park by the heavy hitters of the local team, singles. doubles and hree-baggers being touched off in rapid succession until the total number of 13 had been placed to their credit Eight of this numbs' were made before the eighth inning, when the score was 8 to 6.
 Fatality In the Eighth. | Up to this five hits had been made off | Smith, two of which came in the seventh after a costly error by Moss. Smith was | tired from his fast work on the bases. l But he wanted to stick, so he was re-
 tained until six hits had been made in
 succession. Then Wilhelm was called up- | on. While these hits were being made | Taylor made an error which allowed two I men to score. Wilhelm allowed another | hit, all of which netted six runs during
 tho inning
 l The fatality of the seventh still hangs | over us. After getting through the Cleve- l land series without it showing up, the rooters had come to believe that they had escaped it. But yesterday 1t came just as it did in almost every game last season. When Peas came up first in the inning and hit safe. after having struck out twice during The game, the rooters groaned. Then Moss made raw. inexcusable tumble of an easy grounder, which should have resulted in a double play, and the groan heightened into a heart-tearing cry. The rocrers gave up and declared 1t all over. notwlthstand- ing the fact that the score was 8 to in their favor.
 Made Three In First. But the details of the game must be told In the first Birmingham made three runs. Taylor was first up. He hit to sec ond but Spratt made an error and the umpire called Taylor safe. Taylor stole second. Sorber struck out. OHare walked. and Haller hit to Dolan- who threw 1t to Shocks. LaRocque. hit for two bases and both Taylor and ofiare scored Ballentyne hit 10 right field for three bags and LaRocque scored. Moss bit to Spratt and was thrown out to Shocks.
 Peas was first up for Chattanooga and walked. Lawrence sacrificed. advancing Peas Taylor followed hit to Moss, and was thrown out to Haller. Durrett drew pass and Peas went to third. Durrett stole second and Daugherty struck out, leaving Peas and Dur on bases.
 In the second Wat nit for two bggs. smith went out fro1 ,as to Shook, Tay- Tor knocked a fly Sorber failed to reach first. For Chattanooga, Epratt end
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