The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-08

New Orleans, 8; Little Rock, 0.
 Nearly 1000 enthusiastic fans saw Harry vaughans Coal Barons win one pretty game from Mike Finns tailenders from of to 0. About half again that number with a sad lack of enthusiasm except at long intervals, saw their favorites bite the dust of defeat to the tune of to at the hands of these same cellar champions.
 It is seldom that ball team, In sim gle afternoon has shown such complete reversal of form as did the Birmingham team yesteday in the second game of the double header. While it Is true the box score shows no fielding errors by the Coal Barons in the second contest 1t does not give any indication of the dumb play ing on the base lines nor the miserably incompetent coaching indulged in by sev- eral of Manager vaughan's stipendaries. This Is only slightly indicated by the number of double plays scored by the F1nnlanders in the second contest, all of which resulted from ill-judged base rum ming and poor work on the coaching lines.
 Hooters Disguised.
 Time after time did the Barons have opportunities to win the second game only to let them slip away, to the extreme chagrin and disgust of the rooters. by stupid work on the bases and coaching lines and the inability of the local bats men to connect with Red" Russelrs rainbow curves.
 True Rip Ragan's spit balls were most kindly taken to by the Rock City battsmen in the first two innings but af- ter that he held them safe, allowing but five singles, which resulted in no talies, from then until he retired after the eighth inning.
 Tn the meantime Red" Russell yielded eight hits, passed the same number of batsmen to first on called balls and hit another. Yet with all this Vaughan s men could navigate the circuit but twice. It was bum-very bum-but such are the fortunes of the diamond-sometimes.
 "Ginger'' the Star.
 The first game was a beauty in every respect from Birmingham view point and "Ginger" Clark. who dished up curves and shoots to the Finnlanders was 1 it's bright particular star. Ginger had | the opposing batsmen In the hole from 1 start to finish and after yielding two sim l gles, one in each the first and second in- | nings, he did not permit Nashville swat artist to get anything that looked like | safe hit. His team mates gave him ex- | cellent support both in the field and at the bat Vaughan and Moore's wobbles | not costing anything
 The Barons did not find Mcfarland | quick-breaking curves the easiest propo- sitions of the season, but they found them at the right time and often enough to make the game 'easy picking" The first run was made in the second | inning when Smith opened with slashing single to left center, stole second and reached counting territory on Matty' s bingle past third. The other three tallies come in the sixth on singles by Dele- hanty Vaughan and Smith. a couple of | wild throws to second by Pitcher Me Farland and a base on balls.
 The Second Game.
 The second game was where the Coal Barons got In their indifferent work. I tained it throughout. although Vaughan s men had opportunities to win in the sec ond, fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth and ninth innings. It may be, as some of the apologists for the last game claim, that the Coal Baron's had the heart taken out of their play when Umpire Ehret called Niles out in the first because the latter left third before Norcum caught vaughans fly to deep center. However, | Niles had time to wait until Ehret could not doubt that Norcum had caught the sphere. as Norcum is notoriously poor thrower and Niles an exceptionally fast base runner.
 Bennett opened the second game by hit ting safe and Norcums sacrifice advanced | him to second, from whence he scored on | Elseys craking double to left. A trio of | tallies was added in the second. After | two hands had been retired Bennett hit a Texas leaguer" between Vaughan and Smith which proved to be good for two | sacks and Norcum brought the speedy second baseman home with a double to left. The Big Injun" purloined third and | counted an instant later on Handlers bingle to left. The last run came in the ninth on Bennett's single, a steal of sec ond, a wild pitch and long fly from Nor cum's bat to left
 Barons Score.
 The Barons first score came in the fifth Hennessy was an easy out from second to first but "Matty' hit safe. Moore went out on pop fly to second, ant then Ragan singled. but Matthews could