The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-31
Games Today.
Birmingham at Shreveport Little Rock at Montgomery. Nashville at Memphis.

Again the snagglcd peaks of towering H1ag frowned down upon the followers of Count de Campau and the wing trimmed Pelicans fluttered around for two hours in pond of remorselcss lime. Not a single mark blackencd their immaculate sheet and Smitty is to blame for the Waterloo.
 Two shut outs were mere than His fIighness, the Count, could bear and great tears trlckled down the old heros wrlnlSled face as he packed his bats and beat a homeward retreat.
 This is where friendship ceases,' Ehirped Smitty as the crippled sea birds fnwabbled back to the bench, land no quar- ter shall be shown" True to his word the swift son of Pittsburg was merciIess lend as the game progressed the casual xies grew Nine men had whipsawedN the breeze ere the grand finale came and only -four of the tribe of Campau had put the ball where the felders' aint."
 It was the fifth consecutive victory for Fhe Iron Men and the twenty-five hundred cheering fans figured them out as world beaters. They gave MT. Smith wonder ful support and long hits were cut down with a delightful regularity. Only one pebble marred the fielding and that was tumble of ground ball by Mcguire It was a difficult chance, however, and no one felt sore in the least By the way, Mcguire is playing great ball just now and if he can only keep it up the hard word will die with the past.
 Pelicans Flelded Badly.
 Dannehower pitched good game, but inability to hit put the Percans high in the air. and the little southpaw was given miserable support. Grounder after grounder caromed through the legs of the lads from the gulf, and Atz and Brouthers startled the world by dropping pop 1ies A few clean hits spliced in with this ragtime exhibition by the visitors kept the homo plate warm for awhile, and when the dust had been sprinkled five runs had been smeared on the score board
 Closing a week of successful, or it might be said phencmenal playing the 1ron Men left for Shreveport last night, and will take a brush with the tailend- CTS this afternoon.
 Birmingham began operations yester- 1ay by scoring in the first inning, and the works were cut loose by Jimmy ,D'Brien who singled to center after Duffy had struck out. He went to second on Naughan's hot grounder to Montgomery, and a moment later caught Drury nap ping and stole third. Brown then hit a ,elow one to Montgomery, who had bad ,kangle, but threw in time 70 put Brown out. Law let the ball go through him, however and Jimmy trotted in. The sec- ond run was made in the third inning and Jimmy O'Brien was again the pro- moter After two men were out he slapped a drive into deep center for two bags | and scored on Vaughan's single over sec- ond.
 Fun Comes in the Sixth.
 The real fun came in the sixth and the l fireworks started after two men had bit- ten the dust. Lawler singled to center and went to second 6n a passed ball. Mill lar then hit a hounder which Montgom- cry fumbled and Lawler went to third. Millar pilfered second with ease and Iighton cracked sharp single into right field and both runners scored The last run came in the seventh and was brought about by Atzs error at sec ond and Lawlers clean two-bagger to left field. New Orleans never had a chance except in the second inning and magnificent field and heac work by the Iron Men is alone responsible for the failure. Law hit safe and went to third on Montgomery's sim gle Montgomery made break for sec ond with the intention of drawing a throw that Law might score. The scheme worked nicely so far as drawing the throw was concerned, but Sammy Brown whipped the ball back to Mcguire, who with the assistance of Vaughan got Montgomery in a chase In the meantime Law got a little too far towards home and Vaughan shot the bali to third in ktime to catch the big first baseman about three feet off the bag. The next man was unable to bring about a rally and