The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-27

Shreveport at Little Rock
The Barons punched their hits in two
innings yesterday and won the fifth
straight game of the season. 1t was
pitchers battle and Ginger Clarke had the
best of the argument. Score: Birming-
ham 8; Nashville 1.
Almost 25O0 fans witnessed one of the
prettiest contests which has taken place
under the shadow of Mount Stag this
year. They saw the Barons play superior
ball in every department of the game
and win on merit alone
Not an incident occurred to mar the
pleasure of the game. Umpire Bassett
made every decision with seeming fair
ness and not but one objection was raised
Manager Fisher was responsible for
that. but he was entirely in the wrong
Red" Russell and Clarke fought it out
in the box, and like Oyama at Mukden,
he won because of superior head work
at cruical points. and by the splendid sup
port he received. Clarke's hits were scat
tered, and only once did Nashville look
at all dangers Versus that was the awful
pounding that the Barons laid on the
curves and fast ones of Russell in the
second and eighth inning, when all the
runs were made.
Features of the Game.
Easily the features of the game were
couple of brilliant stops by Moore and
Ward, and the heavy hitting of the for
mer, who secured a brace of doublets.
Murdock's long drive to the center field
fence was also beautiful hit and netted
him three bags.
lansing went up with one hand in the
fourth inning and when he came back to
terra firma he had line drive off wilkie
Clarke's bat which was labeled two bags.
Clarke was due hit nothing short
of rank robbery deprived him of it,
The team work of the Barons was fine,
and two of the three errors were excus-
able. One was by Ward, who went back
into right field after fly and muffed 1t,
and the other was similar error by
Moore. However, Ward redeemed himself
a minute later by going to the first base
foul line and catching a Texas Lacquer
Moore dived over back of second base In
the sixth, scooped up har~ driven
grounder from Russelrs bat and threw
him out at the bag.
Worked Old Trick.
In the initial inning Ward worked an
old trick on Wiseman and caught the fast
DOC" out at first Wiseman was given
a walk Ward secured the ball and
Clarke started to the box as if to de-
liver the ball to the batter. Wiseman left
the bag and was caught O. by Ward
and Vaughan.
The second inning saw the beginning
of the run getting. The venerable manager
had fouled out to first base but Dele
hanty made a vicious swing at the ball
and met 1t squarely for single over Sec
ond base. On Murdocks out at first base
he advanced to second, and stole third,
which constituted a very neat perform
ance. Wlkie Clarke was presented with
a free passage to first ana started to
steal second In order to draw a throw
from Accorsini and allow Delehanty to
score. Clarke was caught in chase, and
Bruyette threw the ball to Elsey to catch
the catcher. Instead of Elsey catching
it, Clarke caught it on the back of the
head, and Delehanty scored. Clarke was
able to get back safely to first on the
error.
Russell was equally as kind to Moore
and gave a pass to first. Ginger" went
in to win his own game and singled to
right field, scoring Clarke Hafford made
the third out
Nashville Couldn't Hit.
Until the seventh inning Nashville was
not able to get anything which resembled
a safe hit, partially due to "Ginger's'
pitching, his excellent control and to the
support he received. In the seventh two
hits were secured, but a fast double
by Moore, Ward and Vaughan cut off
the possibility of a score IN the same
inning, the Barons landed on Russell and
secured total of three runs on as many
hits and an error by Wisenan in left.
Moore led off with a two-base hit to
left field, and Ginger drove the ball to
the left field fence. Wisemah dropped 1t
and Moore went to third and Clarke to
second Hafford stung the ball to center
field for a nit and both runners scored
He went to second on Dusty Miller's
out from short to first, and scored easily
on Wards two-bagger to eft. Vaughan
flew out to center field retiring the SIDE
In The eighth lansing hit for one bag
and was safe on second when Ward
dropped ball thrown to him by Moore
to catch the runner. 1t vas a fielder's
choice and Accorsini was safe at first
Norcum hunted and beat the throw TO
first, filing the bases, and Lally hit over
second base for one bag, scoring jan
sing Accorsini attempted to score also