The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-05-27

One by one the Frankfurters fell before
the mighty speed of Frank Smith yester-
day afternoon and the Stag Shippers an
nexed one more of those coveted scalps
to the string that needs fattening. Smitty
was in the greatest form of his life, and
in only one inning did Franks aggrega-
ton manage to connect with the ball.
Near the end of the fifth chapter they
cleaned up three hits two of which were
flukes, and this allotment netted them two
runs. After that they were unable to
see the ball and Smitty went home the
happlest man on earth. One thousand
fans were also happy, and the spirits of
the city of Birmingham rose just 20 de-
grees before morning.
caucus of the thirty-third degree
rooters was held last night, and 1t was
unanimously decided that the Birming-
ham team should never be called the
Coal Barons again. This name, which
has hung to them for three years, is evil
IDENTIFY a JONAH and something will have
to be substituted. Until some patriotic
citizen can send "a better name to The
A6t-I1tIdiQ lnty Will Dt huOWi ltiIpOA-
arily as the Stag Shippers. Now wouldn't
that jar your mothers preserves?
A Beautiful Game.
Well, to return to that delightful little
episode of yesterday-it was great. No
faster fielding was ever seen on a South
ern league diamond, and 1t WAS all the
more lovely as President Kavanaugh
watched the struggle from the press box.
After the game he said he could not UNI
derstand why Birmingham had lost so
many games, as they had one of the best
fielding teams he has ever seen, as we'll as
being one of the three highest paid teams
in the league
Aside from Smitty's great work in the
box the feature of the game was a dou-
BILE action shuttle between O'Brien and
Mcguire which resulted in the death"
of Perry Werden on second. Perry had
reached first on the only clean hit of the
game and Gfroerer hit a hot one to
Jimmy on third. The ball hit Jimmy's
hand, bounding over his shoulder. Ma
gure was behind him like a flash and
nabbed the escaping ball, slung it to
Lawler at second in time to put Werden
out of the running.
LAWYERS work at second was also of the
gilt edge order and he capped it off with
a beautiful double, putting out the last
two men and cinchng the victory.
Scoring Started in the Fifth.
Though Duffy led off with hit Bir-
mngham was unable to score In the
first inning. In fact neither side could
manipulate matters until the fifth, and
Smith started it off with walking to first
after Mcguire had flied out. Duffy hit a
short two Dagger. advancing Smtty to
third, and Jimmy O'Brien scored Smit-
ty on single to right. Duffy registered
a moment later on Vaughan's fly to right,
and O'Brien was sent home in a canter
on Browns single to left. Lawler hit a
hot one to Bretenstein but the $4,000
spectacle threw him out at first retiring
the side.
In Memphis half of the fifth Werden
led off with a single. But was thrown
out at second on the O'Brien-Maguire
sleight-of- hand performance, Gfroerer
going to first ON heder's choice. Math-
ison then lifted fluke two Dagger to the
right field foul line and Gfroerer scored.
Breitepstein struck out but Mathison
scored on a short Texas Lacquer by STRAIT
ton to center.
This ended the running for Memphis
and postponed any action by the Stag
Shippers until the ninth. Mcguire led
off with a hot drive to left for one bag
and Smith sent him to second on bunt
O'Brien cracked liner into Evans hands
and Duffy was caught off first completing
a double play aud retiring the side. "A
rather remarkable coincidence is that
Lawler also retired Memphis in the ninth
on a similar play.
Campbell will pitch for Birmingham this
afternoon, but 50 far Charlie Frank has
not announced his intentions