The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-22


 Jack Ely proved as easy as ever, and often. The Atlanta team played a very slow game, and appeared to be without interest or life. Result: Birmingham &, Atlanta 4.
 But for errors by Miller and Hafford the visitors would never have had a glimpse of the plate after clrcling the bases The errors were on comparatively easy chances, and might have lost the game but for the great luck the Barons had in hitting the ball.
 Hennessy beat out one hit and Dele hanty beat out two which were bunts in front of the plate. Fast base running, combined with ragged fielding, caused this. Hennessy likewise went from first to third base twice yesterday on bunts by Delehanty, rather an unusual thing even for so fast a base runner.
 Two Fine Records.
 Delehanty made perfect hitting record yesterday, getting four singles out of as many times up. Hennessy got three singles, two of which were clean hits over second base. Smith, Matthews and Schap were right behind with two sin gles each.
 Ragan kept the hits scattered pretty well except In the second inning, when single and two two-baggers resulted in three runs after the side should have been retired, and would have been save for an error by Miller.
 In the first inning Hafford drew free pass to first and was sacrificed to seco. .d by Miller. Hennessy's single over sec- ond scored him, and Hennessy went to second on the throw to the plate He att tempted to steal third but was thrown out. Delehanty singled over first base, stole second went to third on a wild pitch by Ely and scored on Smiths single. Smith stole second and Matthews walked. Schiap singled to left, scoring Smith and sending Matty to second. Moore hit a grounder to Morse who fumbed the ball and allowed Moore to reach first. Mat thews tried to score from second on the play, but was thrown out at the plate He looked safe, but Pfennnger saw it otherwise.
 Tied the Score.
 Atlanta tied the score in the second Morse singled to right field and Miller dropped ball thrown him by schiap, al- lowing Shea to reach first and Morse third. Ely doubled to left. scoring both runners and was in turn scored by Win ters with a double to right field.
 Hennessy. Delehanty and Matthews worked the right kind of cobination in s1. 4l.su messy singled over second, Delehanty at tempted sacrifice and beat the bunt out, Hennessy going to third on the play Smiths out sent Delehanty to second and Hennessy scored on a single by Mat thews to right field. Deehanty scored on Schiaps long fly to the left field
 Hennessy hit a grounder to Stafford in the fifth and beat it out. Jordon and Ely slept too long and did not cover first Delehanty bunted in front of the plate and beat the throw out to first Hennessy going to third on the play Smiths long fly to center scored Hennes- sy. Delehanty tried to reach third on the throw but was caught at that bag
 Atlanta's Last Run.
 obdhbid SiiiSitN anu SApit S'tVnh III llt same inning and scored when Hafford threw Jordan's grounder into the smoker trying to catch him at first. Wild throw ing is something that Hafford is rarely guilty of, so he Is excused.
 The seventh was lucky for Birming- ham. Miller drew four bad ones and a walk to first. Hennessy fouled out to Shea attempting to sacrifice. but Delehan- ty hit to right. Miller went to third on the play and Delehanty went to second on a throw to third to catch Miller. Smith singled and both scored. Smith reaching second on a throw to the plate by Me- Gay to catch Delehanty. Matthews hit high fly to second and Jordan and Morse both went after it. Smith was playing off the base and in getting back ran into the felders who were directly in his way, and they dropped the ball Pfenninger called Smith out for interfer- ing.
 Vaughan protested, claiming that Smith had not interferred but that Morse and Jordan blocked h.m from the lag. Smith might hove gone around the flelders and reached the bag, and not been called out for running out of line but the chances