The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-22
Games Today.
Games Today. Little Rock at Birmingham. Atlanta at New Orleans. Memphis at Montgomery.
 Shreveport at Nashville.


 beautiful snappy contest up to the eighth inning, abounding in brilliant plays and timely hitting, was turned into ragged edged farce yesterday by the rank, inexcusable decisions of Umpire carpen- ter, and, incidentally, Birmingham was swamped by score of 10 to 4. The tab ulated score and the total results have little bearing on the struggle and can give no idea of the horrible nightmare which confronted the fans.
 While MT. Carpenter may be fair mind ed and intended to do what is right he is sadly crippled somewhere near his cap when it comes to umplring and such saf- iron exhibitions as were palmed off on the public yesterday will soon put crimp in the game that is hard to shako.
 After enjoying a spirited contest for seven innings, which kept the grandstand jumping with excitement, the crowd had a genteel sufficiency in the eighth and scores of men, prominent in the realm ot rooters, left the grounds in utter disgust and casting dire maledictions on the head of the aforesaid Carpenter.
 Barons Lost All Heart.
 While Birmingham would probably have lost without an umpire, his awful blow to Jimmy O'Brien at third drove peg into the Coal Barons' chances and left the originators of two recent shut-outs wilted like an election collar, without heart or spirit They had no desire to finish the game and the crowd cared less.
 The matinee opened with Little Rock at the bat Gilbert led off with a short hit to left and went to second on Mill lars tumble. passed ball by Brown ad- vaneed the gentleman from Arkansas to third and he scored on a throw to first with the ultimate intention of nabbing Frank, who in the meantime, had been given a base on balls. Frank stole sec ond and Lynch was hit by a pitched ball. A series of foxy chunks to Mcguire caught Frank off second but Deehanty sent a two- -bagger screaming into deep center and Lynch scored McGann followed with a single and Delehanty scored. The next two Travellers went out and the side re- tired with three runs to the good.
 Birmingham sent Duffy up to face the music and he was complmented with a walk to first. O Brien hit grounder to Clayton, who booted the ball. and both were saved Vaughan advanced both run ners on a neat bunt to Wright. and 1 Brown cut hot one through short SCOT ing both. This was the best the Barons l could do, but it helped some and revived the spirits of the dropping fans. The Score Tied.
 In the fourth Little Rock scored again on singles by McCann and Murphy. In the same inning the Coal Barons waxed 1 busy and tied the score Mcguire broke the ice with a two-sacked into left and was sent reeling across the rubber by the ice with two-sacker into left and l three bags Duffy fouled out, but Jimmy O Brien cracked a safe one into right and Campbell scored.
 Things went nicely until the seventh, when two-bagger by Murphy and sue cessive grounders sent him home with the leading run.
 In the eighth the Waterloo came, and it was not in broken doses. Frank was given a walk and Lynch bunted. Camp bell tried to catch Frank at second, but was a moment too late and both were safe. Delehanty bunted a slow one to third which OBrien thought would roll 1 into foul territory, but such was not the