The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07

Little ROCK at shreveport.
 Memphis at New Orleans.
 Poor old Mat went to the bat
 To crack in the needed run
 Denver caught the rap on the very first
 slap
 And doubled us up with none.
 Now I guess that's doubling some.
 Rocking with the odor of yellow work the rankest yet most exciting baseball game of the season, was turned loose on nearly three thousand fans yesterday afternoon and by good luck and such oth- CT and further relief as couldn't be help ed was awarded to Montgomery by score of to 5.
 It took eleven innings to work off the contest which developed into A record breaker in various and sundrier particu- lars In the first place it was the limit for endurance, being spun out over three long hours and when the last ball was caught the faces of the players could not be distinguished by persons in the r nd- , stand. The next record smashi'-s feature was the quantity of stolc bases. Bir- mingham in toto pife~ed fourteen sacks and Montgomery .nnexed ten, making grand total of two dozen steals. If any body .an top this they will have to stay l. i, late at nights.
 The Sad Finish.
 Darkness had fallen over the green when with only one out Duffy stole third and one run was needed to tie the score. Matthews had the required blood In his eye but with a fearful swing he drove the ball on a dead line towards the pitcher. In desperation Denver stuck out his right hand. stabbed the ball with two fingers and as Duffy scrambled between home and third he whipped the the little sphere to lansing completing a double which wound up the game.
 The crowd which had been bowling with varied emotions suddenly became silent stood still for a moment and recovering from the stunning blow groped their way through the darkness to the cars. It was a calamitous finish for the Barons, who leave this morning on a four weeks trip, and but for that lucky catch a sweet morsel would have been left with Slag- town.
 History recalls few instances when Sagtown suffered from so many con- f1cting emotions. On many occasions all fandom was rejoicing over some bril- liant play when suddenly a Baron would take a shoot skyward and come down with one of tho rottenest errors ever chalked against him in a score book
 Lynchs First Error. Poor Henry Lynch, the boy who had gone all season without making an error, pulled off his initial pebble and resulted in a run, the absence of which would have tied the score. He has been play Ing great ball, however, and not root CT murmured. They simply had to take 1t, and they did.
 | Disorder broke out soon after the flag | fell and 1t was a continuous performance of wrangling for long weary hours. Catcher Clarke of Montgomery finally grew so rampant that MT. Mulane was | compelled to deduct ten dollars from his monthly stipend, and others barely es- | capped getting the same dose. During | one of these melees Jimmy O'Brien dash ed In home from third with the run that | tied the score and prolonged the contest | for eleven innings.
 | Montgomery scored her first three runs | with out hit. Two of these came in the first inning and resulted from base on balls, infed grounders and stolen bases. Oscar Streit was very wild at the start and walked man after man. When he did get the ball over the plate, however, not a Pretze; could touch 1t. Bases on balls, stolen bases and Matty's wild throw to third let in another run in the third and hit, stolen base and another hit made it four in the eighth. Two hits and Lynchs error of a grounder after two men were out completed the day for Montgomery in the eleventh by giving them the game with a total of six runs.
 Barons Hit Ball Hard. All this time Birmingham was hitting the ball hard but could not make the bingles count. The first broadside of an effective nature was cut ioose In the sixth inning. Lynch led off with a three base drive to extreme rfgnt and Harry Vaughan sent him home with rap for two bases to left center. Hanly then scorched out hot single and Vaughan | came home.
 1 The real excitement began in the eighth | when Lynch led off with a single, l Vaughan flied out and Hanley struck out. 1 Lynch stealing second. Lynchs opening hit broke Stults thumb and new pitch CT had to be trotted In. Bob Triton was the man but had no time to warm up This occasoned big row but he finally | went in and after two were out hit Jim | my O'Brien and walked Tamsett and
 Minahan, forcing in Lynch. With the | ,oo.o, f,,u Moptoomery raicad an