The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
Games Today. Montgomery at Birmingham. Shreveport at New Orleans. Nashville at Atlanta.
 Memphis at Little Rock.
Games To-day

Discouraged. disgruntled and unable to hit, the Iron Men took fall from the slag pile yesterday afternoon, and Whist ler's crowd went off with the goods. The boys in blue were beaten from the start and while they perforated the air around the home plate trying to land on Bren- nan the Legislators ran away with the game, leaving the crowd silent, sad and disconsolate.
 Brennan, for the first time in his ca- reer took the Birmingham teams meas ure, and of the five hits secured off his delivery two were of the scratchy varie- ty. They were hard grounders to the in field which turned Spratt and Busch around and under the rules of liberalty had to be scored as hits.
 One the other hand Smitty had plenty of speed and a nice assortment of curves, but the Whistlers simply had it in their bones to win and they mauled the ball into the far away corners. As a grand finale Whistler rubbed it in by skipping the ball over right field fence for home run in the ninth inning, while Moles- worth, who had been given pass to first, trotted in ahead of the hero This was the first ball to be knocked over the fence during the present season. Of course the famous drive by H. Scudder Ryan Is excepted, as this was not pulled off in a regular league contest.
 Birmingham Scores on Error.
 But for a rank error by Clark Mont gomery's catcher. Birmingham would have been shut out and Brennan would have doubly earned the white wash, The one and only run came in the fourth in- ming when Lawler hit slow one just in front of the plate. Clarke picked up the ball and in his anxiety threw over Whistlers head and by the time 1t had been grabbed out of the dirt near right field fence Lawler was perched on third with nobody out Brown then drove long fly to left field and Lawler scored on the throw in.
 Montgomery became industrious right at the beginning. and Spratt, the first man up. hit for two bags, Childs struck out while in one of his frisky moods Spratt was caught off second. Moles- worth singled to left and scored on w nlSllcT S lWO-DdSt ullNC u tNAlti hNiNs Flannigan retired the side on a pop fly to Vaughan.
 In the third Montgomery scored three more runs on two clean hits and beau tiful cluster of errors. After one man was out Molesworth was balled to first. Whistler flied out to Duffy, but Flanni- gan hit for two bags and Molesworth scored Kanzler hit hot one which Smitty fumbed and threw wild to first. Vaughan recovered in time to catch Elan nigan at the plate, but the old man chunked the ball over Millericks head and Flannigan trotted in, Kanzler going to third Clarke then hit safe and Kanz- Ter scored. Busch retired the side on a grounder to first.
 Fireworks in the Ninth.
 In the ninth Busch opened up with a strike-out, but Brennan redeemed it by cutting a fierce rap into left field for three bags Molesworth got safe on Law ler's tumble. and Whistler, feeling none the worse for wear lifted high one over right field fence for a home run. Flannigan hit for two bases and Kanzler drove a slow one down to Mcguire which he did not see until too late. He then threw to first. and F'lannigan in an at- tempt to score was thrown out at the plate. This retired the side, and as Br- mingham was unable to connect, broke up the game
 Oscar Streit will probably pitch for Montgomerv todav and Clark will work for Birmingham.