The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05
Jack KeeDan Lets the Cham DiOns Down Without Sen-
 bIance of a Hit
ENORMOUS CROWD SEES
 LEAGUE RECORD BROKEN
Brown Brings Ia the Run That Won the Game By Driving a Safe Hit to Left Field In the Sixth
 Inning.

Before a crowd of nearly five thousand | cheering and wildly excited fans the Iron Men snatched the second game from Nashville and not only played the pret- tlest game of baseball ever seen in Bir- mingham, but broke the seasons record in , the matter of hits.
 Jack Keenan did the work of his life and let the much vaunted champions down to earth without the slightest sem blance of a hit. Not even scratch marred the beauty of Jacks magnificent work and today he holds the record of the Southern league. Aside from this re- markable feat he did not allow a single base on balls and to make the record even more unique he failed to strike out one of the opposing batters.
 Behind Jack the team played game of ball that would have put the look of shame on many a National leaguer. Only one pebble broke up the monotony of the magnificent work and that was an ex- cusable tumble on the part of Lawler. He made a nice run for a srounder but tangled 1t up in his fingers and failed to catch the man at first. Punch Knoll was hit in the back with a pitched ball and these two men were the only Tennesseans to reach first base throughout the con test
 Russell Tried 1t Again.
 While Keenan's superb pitching was the entire game, 1t must not be forgotten that Russell. the game youngster who had the nerve to try and twirl two games, did great work Five hits only were secured off his delivery and the one run made by Birmingham was badly needed
 Aside from Keenan's remarkable record another extraordinary occurrence was given the public yesterday. Birmingham and Nashville played an even twenty in- nings in the two games with but one run. On the day before they played nine in- nings with but two scores. In the series the two teams played twenty-nine innings and but three runs were made on both | sides.
 An Immense Crowd. By the time the gate keepers reached | the park at o'clock yesterday afternoon the crowd was elamoring for admission | and from then until long after the game had started a scene never to be forgotten was enacted in front of the entrance. l Men, women and boys formed a surging mass of more than two thousand people and fought their way to the gate inch | by inch. They were packed clear back l to the car track and the poor ground keepers were almost overwhelmed. Final ly some bright mind conceived the Idea of making another entrance and with heavy hammer knocked off three blanks and formed @ temporary gate. Through | lt h the congestion was partially relieved. When the game was half over it is es- tlmated that nearly five thousand people were in the enclosure
 A large crowd of Nashville fans were present and their roofing added to the sport though their voices were complete ly drowned when things were coming Bir- mingham's way.
 Brown Wins the Game. Nashville never had a chance from the start and 1t looked very little brighter for Birmingham until the last half of the sixth inning had rolled around Twas then that Brown, with his awful stick, delivered the rap that sent the flags floating from every part of old Mount Slag and exploded a bombshell into the crowd, which by this time stretched in a circle around the field. | Duffy drew four balls and walked to | first. O Brien, after failing on his bunts, | hit a safe one just over Bussey's head for one bag, but Duffy could not go past sec | ond. Vaughan fouled two balls in an eff | fort to bunt and was then compelled to swing at the ball He jabbed a Jumping grounder Into Moss glove and a double play resulted. Duffy. however, reached third on the play and Brown was called upon to save his country. He had 1t in ] him from the start and swinging lightly at | the ball he drove a clean single Into left l and Duffy trotted home with the first and | only run of the day.
 | While his bingies failed to count, Millar llead the batting by rammlng two line | drives into left field for one sack each. | It was glorious Fourth and a glorious game.
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