The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-13
Games Today.
Birmingham at Memphis. Atlanta at Shreveport. Montgomery at New Orleans.

Memphis, September 12.-(Special.) With a wonderful burst of speed aided by dark, cloudy day, Mcintyre swept every thing before him this afternonn and shut the Coal Barons out without e run and but two stingy line cracks off the bat of Duffy One by one the Barons faced the awful speed only to flicker. falter and finally fall down flat. Even the great Harry Vaughan could not solye the mighty young twirler and the venerable father of the Birmingham team sawed the air on three occasions in fruitlcss en- deavors to land on the bal
 On the other hand CraDll pitched a magnificent game and with anything like fair hitting behind him would have won with ease. One run was cored off the parson twirler in the open.rg chapter and another In the eighth. Though ten hits were scored against him, he kept them well scattered and the majority of The clouts were absolutely harmless
 Leidy Hands One.
 In the eighth Inning Birmingham had an elegant chance to land ctory. but Leidy refused to call McAnirews' two- base fair and with that deylsion the game went glimmering and another sad note has to be waited to the sump,ts of cld Sag. Duffy was on first base and mo- body out when McAndrews whipped a fierce drive down the third base line which looked good for at least two bags and possibly three. Duffy made the cir cult and was almost In home when Um- | f1af foul To all the players on the Birming- ham bench it, looked as If the ball went squarely over the eentereor third base but Leidy was a little slow in getting down and refused to see 1t that way. In fact Birmingham got the hot end of the close decisions, but with that it Is doubtful if the Coal Barons could have won Me lntyre never pitched such ball in his fife and Frank Smith in his palmiest days never had more speed.
 Memphis tallied in the opening bout on Atz's single h.-ler's sacrifice and Dele hanty's drive to left field Alter that they got three men on the bags with only one out, but Crabill held the next two batters under his thumb, and there was nothing doing. From then until the end 1t was a bitter fought contest with both teams playing magnificent ball The infield work or Dotn cluDS was almost phenomenal. It looked impossible for either side to score. In the eighth. however, Delehanty led off with a single and was sent to sec ond on a sacrifice. Perry Werden then backed one up against the Red Elm Bank for two bags and Delehanty trot- ted in with the second and last run of the game.
 Never Had a Chance. Except in the inning when Leidy threw iMcAndrews down on his pretty hit, Blr- mingham never had a chance to win. The rooters adopted similar tactics in regard to treatment of the Birmingham players today. though no missiles were thrown The jeering followed the bus all the way down. The only consolation the Birming- ham team has for the two defeats is that very few persons saw them. In this pennant winning town Franks team drew less than 900 people each game. If the people in Birmingham could see the size of the crowds here they would think the league had gone up in smoke.
 After the game this afternon the Barons leave for New Orleans. where they play three games, beginning Monday. Clark pitches today.