The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-04

Smartlng under the successive defeats at the hands of Little Rock, The Iron Makers jumped on a cripple at Sagtown yesterday and cut long gashes in MT. Adams delivery until the Pelican chunkist looked like the business end of a pepper box. Eight round wholesome singles were carved out of the noted southpaw's slants, and when the flag ran up Bir- mingham had corralled another game and New Orleans was sent to the hay with basket of goose eggs as a reminder of what they had seen in the valley of West End.
 It was a dull, listless. one-sided game from the start and the only feature of interest, aside of the vaudeville stunt of one Josephus Keenan, was the fact that Birmingham won. Keenan, who is a jolly little Frenchmen, was the whole works. red lemonade, peanuts and the side show combined.
 keenan Kept Them Laughing.
 From the time the game started he kept spectators and players roaring with laugh ter, and his antics alone are worth the price of admission. He is a typical blonde with rosy complexion, and this set of with a head as free from hair as an ivory billiard ball, make him very handsome man. On one occasion he was forced to remove his cap and the crowd discovered that his Della Fox curl had fallen by the wayside. He immediately h hot hp of shining skull. while the crowd roared.
 Clark pitched magnificent ball from the start and New Orleans was never in the running. They managed to gnaw off four little hits two of which were scratches, and the best they could do was to push one man as far as third base. He expired in a few minutes without a struggle.
 outside of the eight clean drives the Barons clouted the ball hard right off the reel, and many long raps were cut down by the New Orleans players, Vaughan. Ginger Clark and Lawler were each robbed of a beautiful hit by this system of theft.
 Rickert Is Star.
 One of the chief thieves on the New orleans team is well meaning young fellow by the name of Rickert. He eats everything up in the left garden with the greatest complacency and he speared two line drives yesterday that would have meant much for Birmingham. He is undoubtedly the greatest throwing fielder in the south and 1t is worth just twenty-five cents each time he whips one in from the field. Just to make things lively yesterday he chunked one into the catcher's hand from deep left field It was a beautiful throw and though it was done just for the fun of the thing many an Iron Man trembled And he is a nice fellow on top of that.
 Birmingham made enough runs to win in the second inning. and that being suffi- cient there was nothing of an eruptive nature doing thereafter. It came about something like this:
 How the Runs Came.
 After Millerick had flied out. Lawler laced beauty over second Kanzler ripped another one between Lawier and Evans and Montgomery threw at third to catch Lawler. The ball was thrown wild an. both men advanced a base. Ma guire then cracked one at Keenan and the dandy little shortstop' slung 1t home. Hurley had Lawler by two feet at the plate, but he dropped the ball in the collision and Lawler and kanzler both scored Mcguire in the meantime went to second, but Clarke popped out to Evans It was now up to Duffy. and he of the little feet, handed over the goods He cracked one over second that looked like pea and Mcguire cantered home ward with the third, last and most well come run. After that the crowd went to sleep and when Daddy Cook. the ground keeper. announced that the show was over. the score stood Just the same. The crowd was satisfied and did not wait for the concert
 Triton will probably pitch for Bir- mingham today and Dannehower may work for New Orleans.
 Official Score.