The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-09-14
IRON BARONS LOSE
IN SLUGGING MATCH.
Ginger Clark Fails to Hustle
After Grounders
FRENCH is AN EASY MARK
Birmingham Players Have No Trou-
BILE in Finding the Ball But III
Luck BefalIs Them at
Every Turn.
FRENCH IS AN EASY MARK

Memphis, September 3-(Speeial)-In a
warlike bombardment Memphis and Bir-
mingham slugged the ball all over the
lot today and the miserable fielding Of
Clarke allowed the leaders to score just
enough runs to cinch the game and send
Birmingham on her swing around the cir
cult without a single victory Every man
who walked out from the Coal Baron
bench whipped the ball all over the nose
and under ordinary circumstances would
have won in a walk, notwithstanding the
fact that Memphis is credited with one
more hit than her opponents.
Clark Fields Badly.
In the very first inning, Ginger Clark
showed no inclination to hustle after
grounders and ere the game had progress
ed far his failure to cover first base at
critical times showed the gaff into his
teammates and Frankfurter after Frank
furter trotted across the plate. Even
after Memphis had secured a command
ing lead the Iron Makers kept right on
with their pounding, but i'll luck befell
them at every turn and a grand rally in
the ninth was unaVailing. Clarks work
was awful and his slowness in teldlng
soon had Vaughan ratified Outside of his
bad work In fielding Clark did not pitch
his usually strong game. The fourteen
elouts registered against him furnish a
glaring reminder of this fact. French
proved an easy mark for Birmingham and
though the boys could not win. they put
a big lot of fat in their batting averages.
Vaughan and Millerick Bat.
Vaughan and Millerick smashed the
Il II lon, -
for lucky stab In the dark by Atz one
of vaughan's line drives would have
broken up the game and disappointed
over three thousand fans Duffy won him
self favor III this hostile town, by
making an almost impossible sprint after
a home-run labelled drive off the bat
Of Werden. The plucky little fielder got
to the ball, which at the time was fur
Their away than the scoreboard at Stag
town is from the plate, but just as he
touched 1t he fell headlong in little ditch
and ii looked for moment as If he had
been knocked senseless. Before any play
ers could reach him crowd of specta-
tors sitting against the fence helped him
to his feet and it was found that he only
sustained severe shaking up. He con-
tinued the game. Birmingham fans can
imagine how far he was out of his posi-
HON WHEN II ID hiluWn that IL was III
possible for the second baseman to tell
whether he had caught the ball. When
he came in he said that he dropped it
when he fell and his word went.
Duffy Starts the Fun.
In the first inning Duffy laced one over
second and was advanced on a sacrifice
Vaughan then reeled off a pretty two
Dagger and Duffy scored. Mllerick dupli-
Gated the performance and Vaughan tall
lied This looked bad to Memphis, but the
next two men went out and the side re-
tired. In Memphis half Dusty Miller hit
for two bags Delehanty singled and
DUNCAN got safe on a Texas Lacquer, Mil
Ter scoring. Werden walked filing the
bags. A slow ball was hit to the infield,
but Clark was too slow and run scored.
He walked Fritz and forced in another
one. A long fly to the field let in fourth
score and the inning was over. This
kind of work kept up through the game
Runs were as common as pop bottles
with nobody out. In the sixth Delehanty
laced out a line drive into the left field
beachers for a home run.
In the ninth Birmingham made des-
perate rally, but failed to land the money.