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

They marched around the bags,
 And then they marched around again. When they got safe.
 They began to chafe
 To reach the second sack,
 Stickney yelled out "hold them there" But now whose hitters cloaI the track?
 Twas Tom and Mattie.
 Twas Tom and Matte,
 Who yelled out Now lay on the wood.
 They kept on talking.
 With the Barons walking,
 Did Tom and Mattie-attie-atti
 (Now wouldn't that Jar MT. DooleyO
 With streaks of yellow playing up and down their frames and errors as frequent as showers in May the Coal Barons and the visiting clan from the capital in- dulged in the rankest game of baseball that ever jared the score board in deep centerfield. The score was Birmingham, 12; Montgomery. 8; but that Is of small moment just now.
 Opening up with broadside of cracks from the bats of the Barons which netted eight runs, the contest waxed warm and the fans got a real run for their money. The game began at 3:3O O clock and it was after o'clock when the last man was declared out, and the remarkable contest allowed to pass into history. This broke all records for long nine-inning games given place in the hall of fame located in the outskirts of Slagtown.
 A Walking Match.
 Before the rooters brigade had hardly recovered from the initial enthusiasm the game drifted into a walking match and around the bags the players marched with regularity and precision The re- cords confirm the rumor that seventeen men on both sides received bases on balls, and another free pass man was added by being hit by batted ball. In this charitable process Deaver Streit and Stultz tied for first honors, with five free passes each, and Hopkins brought up the rear with only two. He helped his aver age a little, however, by walking one man while the bases were full and forcing in run.
 In addition to this remarkable walk ing match errors piled up and scores were more frequent than fouls over the grand stand. Robbie after pebble sent runners reeling around the bags and few choice hits thrown in for lagniappe kept the home plate hot for more than two hours.
 Plenty of Timber.
 At the jump the Barons brought out a wagon load of timber and when the quarter was reach MT. Stultz had been sent to the tall grass with a total of runs stacked up on the board for Bir- mingham. He followed in the footsteps of one MT. Lucas on the previous day but was relieved from lingering death by the appearance of MT. Denver, who was also plunked in the solar plexus at the fire of the first guns
 Wagner, the pitcher, who is filling Tam sett's place at short, evidently had a case of stage fright and with luck send ing every grounder bounding his way he made pretty bad mess of the stu- ation He fumbled badly and allowed many runs to score besides preventing double plays. The crowd understood the situation, however, and as he is doing the best he can to help the team out of bad hole criticism Is not In order.
 In the first inning Duffy made his bow to the crowd and rapped a neat single to left. He immediately stole second and advanced to third on Smiths long fly to Molesworth. Matthews hit safe and Duffy scored Lynch then whipped out a clean three bagger down the right foul line and Matthews trotted home. Poichow made a mess of Vaughans grounder and Lynch cantered to the rubber. Vaughan promptly stole third and scored on Han ley's single. This wound up the first round.
 Another Cluster.
 In the second inning Hopkins opened with a strike out but Duffy walked. He advanced on Smiths grounder to short and Matthews walked. On a bad throw Duffy and Matthews worked the double steal and Lynch's single chased them both in home. Vaughan then hit safe sending Lynch home and Hanley's drive to center opened the gate for Vaughan. In the fourth errors and hit sent In another score and bases on balls connect ed with a hit landed two more In the fifth. Lynch brought in the final run in ll.e seventh and after that the board was blank.
 Montgomery scored four runs in the third inning and gave the fans an awful scare. Busch opened 1t with a safe crack to center and Denver landed safe on Wagners error Molesworth struck out but Schwartz hit safe scoring Busch and s-..~.ng Deayer to third lansing walked hling the bags and Delehanty stung a safe one scoring Denver and Schwartz lansing scored on a fielders choice and that wound up the proceedings.
 wild collection of bases on balls, bob