The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-30

| Birmingham lost by one single, measley score. Again Memphis victory was &C., | credited to poor judgment between the bases. But the boys played fast ball otherwise, and soon the hoodoo must leave them. For the past several days they have lost by that same score in nearly every game. Wilhelm will make every possible effort to throw off the hoodoo this afternoon by doing hard stunt to secure victory.
 Cavender, the new Texas man over whom the management had so much trouble some weeks ago. was in the game and did well. He hit the ball like a veteran with a true eye and went after the flies in great shape.
 The story from Memphis is as follows:
 Memphis, July 29.-(Special.) .)-The pitch- ing of Breitenstein was anything but per picking to the Birmingham batters to- day, but the local left-hander mixed curves with plenty of speed and scat tered the efforts of the visitors so that when the final inning was reached they found that they were hugging the short of 4-3 score. In this inning Blue start | ed with a single but was thrown out at second as Wilhelm bunted. Brown, sub stituted to hit for W. Smith, made the second out by lifting a fly to Evans. Campbell was sent up to hit for Deaver, and after two strikes had been called he | connected with a safe one which went so slow to Gfoerer in right field that Will helm was enabled to reach third. Law Ter soon relieved the suspense by suc- cumbing to Breitenstein after he had suc- ceeded in drawing two strikes and three balls.
 The Alabamians again batted harder than the locals, but whatever chance they had to win was again spoiled by their ill-judged chance taken on the bases Through the blunders of Leidy and F. Smith in the third inning, the locals were enabled to shut out the visit ors without a run. Leidy was on third at the time and Smith was on first. With quick turn Breitenstein threw to Babb and Leidy found himself a few inches from third base when Babb touched him with the ball; then Smith was caught at second. Again in the eighth inning Cav ender was caught by several yards at third base tryirg g to reach that station on a single to the plate. As Brouthers fol- lowed with safe hit, another tally was taken from the Birmingham count.
 Score in the Sixth.
 It was not until the sixth inning that l the VlSltOfS mustered enough strength ID reach the plate. In this inning Lawler drew pass from Breitensteln and went to third on Leidys hit to right. F. Smith rapped a smart grounder to Williams and Lawler sred home while Leidy and F.. Smith wer reached in double play. The other Alabama scores happened in the eighth inning which Lawier opened with double. Leidy followed with one to Evans which was juggled. Lawler SCOT ing Cavender singled and Leidy scored but Cavender was thrown out trying to reach third while the ball was relayed to the plate. Memphis made TWO runs in | the third on w, Smiths error, Breiten- 1 steln's single a sacrifice and Evans single. Breitenstein hit for two bases in | the fifth and scored on Babbs safe hit. Winning Run.
 The winning run was made by Williams, who singled in the sixth, stole secone, went to third on passed ball, and scored on Brouthers' poor handling of Accorsinis s grounder. Caverder, the new man who played today, showed up well with the stick, smashing hard straight liners that on other days might fall between the fielders. His one error was the failure to stop mean bounding grounder which | came straight at him.