The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-23
Clark Pitched Nice Ball and Hit Ball Hard, But Blneles Failed to Ar rive on Auspcious occa-
 slons-First Sad Story.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE STANDING.

With steady stream or luck pourhs along their path the Fishermen nommed 1t back to the Coal Barons yesterday and captured the second game of the initial series by a score of to 0.
 Red Russell was the nemesis which hovered over the Birmingham club, and though nine strong and sturdy mtsrhen faced him time and again they were unable to crack the ball on the round side, and therein lies the secret or the first downfall of the Barons Luck was also with this gentleman of the straw berry curls. and out of bad holes he jumped with perfect ease.
 On two occasions Birmingham had ex- cellent opportunities for evening up the score. but well-amed bunts were turned into pop flies and the men from the Cumberland devoured them with an lh- suitable appetite. Hits were not torth- coming when few clean drives would have broken up the game, and the sad story fingers there.
 As on the day before, the game abound ed in fast, snappy and brilliant helding' and 1t is not a disgrace to suffer defeat In an errorless contest.
 Clark Pitched Nice Ball.
 Clark pitched beautiful game but un- happy raps by the opposing batters put crmp in his chances of success ana the men behind him could not offset the dilemma with a few choice swipes when singles would have looked as pig as four sackers Ginger not only drew laurels for his work in the box but fat tened up his batting averages with two hits out of three times up. He hit the ball hard on both occasions, but died a lingering death on the fatal circut. His fielding was fast and faultless
 Birminghams only chance to win In Garrison style came in the eigth inning just after "Ginger," the goat, had been Tod on the field by the unconquerable Dad Cook otherwise known as the ground-keeper. Dad appeared in an ice cream suit consisting of white yacht ing cap and pair of duck trousers ana thoroughly looked the part or the deao game sport he is.
 As the goat let forth an encouraging bleat Tamsett stung a beautiful drive over third base for two bags. Ginger Clarke then whacked a hot one into Low ney and anchored safely at first. This leads up to the saddest chapter of the dolefu story. With a man on third and one on first with nobody out, Duffy went up with instructions to bunt. At the first attempt he missed the ball but tried again, only to pop a fly into the hands of Lewis on third, while rooters by the hundreds moaned.
 Plain Hard Luck.
 Billie Smith essayed to punch the ball to the tall and uncut, but jabbed an easy fly to Bennett. The sorrow was intensi- fled. All depended on Pat Millerick, but the best Pat could do was to slap hot one into the pitcher and suffer death be- fore he reached first. Thus endeth an unhappy story for Birmingham.
 Nashvile's first run came in the fourth inning when, after two men were out, Bennett scored on Lowney's two-bagger to left. Hanley unfortunately misjudged the ball for a moment and in turning to make the catch stumbled. Thus Low ney's long fly was turned into two bagger
 The second run came in the eighth. Russell, Kennedy and Wiseman hit safe and that's all there is to it. Russell scored.
 It Is very likely that Hermann or Ros- son will pitch for Nashville this after noon and that Hopkins or Wagner will work for Birmingham. As usual the game will be called at 3:30 o'clock.
 The score follows:
 The Official Soore