The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-03-20
NEW WORKERS GET
AN AWFUL SCARE
Coal Barons Pound the Ball for
Seven Runs
ERRORS CAUSED DEFEAT
Blackburn Proves to Be Great Pitcher,
and McGraw Says He Certainly
Knows His Business-An-
other Game Tomorrow.

There was a general shaking up of old
dry bones at Slagtown yesterday and for
the first time this season Muggsy Nc
Graw got a real sensation. He felt the
ups and downs of life like unto the days
when scrapping was in flower in the
staid old city of Baltimore, but when
fortune turned his way and his pennant
seekers won all was forgiven. The score
was Il to with Birmingham on the
small end of the board but this tells moth
Ing OF the tragedy enacted under the
shadows of Mount Stag.
There was business from the jump and
hundreds of stiff and rusty old vocal
chords were oiled up with the balm of
impending success and the deepest cav
ems in the Stag were penetrated by the
yelp Of the Birmingham rooter Before
the ponies left the post the sins Of last
Wednesday were forgiven and some of the
NEST prominent knockers in Slagtown
were pulling for the Barons
blackburn, the Texas find proved to
be al the missionaries claimed for him,
and he has long since won him a home
with an elder down bed in Birmingham.
Tee New Workers had great difficulty in
Locating him and though facing a bunch
out of his class he kept his head on ice
and no amount of roasting from the big
ieaguers could shake him from his perch.
Tribute to Blackburn.
After the game Manager McGraw paid
this youngster from the brush league a
high tribute. THAT man Blackburn"
sald -MsGraw, is corlzer. He knows his
business and is hard worker. He fields
ff,,1I.
make fine records In the Southern
league"
rms from man like McGraw means
mueh as he is not given to handing out
con" about ball players.
Ames started in to pitch for New York
and drew terrific lambasting at the first
shake of the box. Before the dust had set
tied in the first inning, birmingham had
three runs, and 1t was all through good
clean hitting
Duf1y, the first man up, worked his way
TO first on four balls, and Billie Smith
followed with a clean drive to right for
one bag. Duffy was held at second by
Brownies quick throw, but Lynch soaked
one Into deep left for two bags. and both
men scored. Pat Millerick cracked an
other nice one over third base and Lynch
scored. This little matinee gave Mr. Ames
a slight tinge of aerial notions and be
1t known that this sorrel-topped athlete
bound for Gotham, forgot his exact loca-
ton It was evidently case of stage
fright, but Birmingham had asked for no
quarters and consequently gave none. The
Barons plnnked Mr.. Ames good and hard
and took advantage of every bobble to
get familiar with the rubber on the return
home.
Four Runs in the Fifth.
On errors, bases on balls, Millerick's
and Blaekburn's singles and Alexander $
two-bagger in the fifth, Brien's colts
scored four more runs, and that ended
the local performance for the afternoon.
Up to the fifth the locals had been play
ing hard, snappy ball, and the New York
ers were against hard proposition.
Wheeler's unfamiliarity with first base
caused fatal error in the seventh, and
the McGrawmen ran over each other get
ting in home. Out of two hits they piled
up grand total of nve runs and the
fragments of broken hearts were scat
tered throughout the grandstand. A day
of joy had been turned to despair in
Slagtown, but the wise ones went away
believing that Birmingham has the real
goods.
Alexander. who worked at second, han
died himself nicely and out of four times
at bat received two bases on balls ana
laced out a clean two-base drive to right
field. He made good with the fans.
Lynch and Tamsett "There."