The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-20


curves of Little Eva" Wilhelm. the high
" paid yellow" Pelleans were unmerci-
fully dashed and brutally bruised by the
valiant Barons on yesterday afternoon.
| The final score of the uninteresting and
one-slded contest was to 0.
The feature of the game was the mas
terly work of Welhelm, who, in spite of
the fact that the field was damp, and the
sphere damper, held the much Boosting
Pelicans down to two measley singles. One
OF these came In the second inning and
did no HARM the other came in the ninth
after two men were down. Thus Wilhelm
missed a one-hit game and another rec
ord by the skin of his teeth.
While the visitors played fairly well in
the field, their unskillful swinging at the
cratic benders of the Baron pitcher was
laughable and rendered them helpless.
Rain Threatened.
At no point. after the game was started.
was there doubt but that the Barons
would win. The only thing that threatened
was the rain, and when the game was
sewed up. and time was called in the
third inning. the fans were oppressed by
a fearful fear that It would be taken from
them after all However. when only ten
minutes Of the half hour had elapsed, I'M
plre Buckley again ordered the Pelicans
to the field, and to the fate staring them
in the face.
After the game was renewed there was
never again cause for alarm. Wilhelm had
| everything In stock and the Barons were
finding with consummate ease the delivery
OF one Silver" Bill Phillips. Both teams
gave their respective pitchers excellent
support An error by Meeks in handling
a ball delivered by Wilhelm resulted In a
Pelican reaching second. An error by
| OBrien, however, in the first inning,
which gave Meeks life at first, opened the
way for the Barons to run in two addi-
tional scores to the ones already racked
up. This miscue had the game been close,
would have been disastrous
"YelIow" Pelcans.
When the rain was threatening to fall
at any moment, and the Pelicans realized
that they were beaten, 1t was as galley
slaves that Buckley compelled them 20
come to the plate, and be slaughtered.
1 They held back and complained like
babies They went into the field slowly
looking always to the heavens. Phillips
pitched so tamely and in such slow time
that the fans yawned recklessly and COM
planned loudly Finally, when time was
| called, the Pelicans re1oiced. and gathered
for a long rest on their bench. Umpire
Buckley met with certain half hearted
resistance when he finally ordered the
H.. IDnff
held back and complained at tho weather.
The visitors are not good fellows
Brouthers grumbled some and Jakey Atz
also made complaint. When Rickert was
struck out in the first inning he grumbed,
too. However, the game was so one-sided
that after the visitors saw there was no
chance of the rain interfering, they went
dumbly through the form and then left
the park.
Run Made.
The Barons got busy from the very first
In fact, the first ball that the Pelican
pitcher threw across the plate Wordsworth
laid up against for two bases. From sec
ond he went to third on Smiths out, and
scored on Montgomerys fiy-out to CEN
ter Meeks and Gear also scored In the
first inning. When two were down Meeks
hit to the infed and was safe on O'Brien's
error. Gear then sailed a Texas Lacquer to
right. A base on balls to Walters filed
the bags. Then Oyler hit safe over third
and Meeks and Gear came home The Pei
leans raised much of a howl because Oy-
ler's ball was fair.
In the third inning the two other runs
were made. Meeks hit safe was sacrificed
by Gear and took third on wild pitch
Oyler was walked and stole second. Then
Garvin. responding nobly to the call for
action. jabbed the ball directly over Sec
ond. Both runners Tailed.
The Game Ends.
From that point there was nothing
doing for either side. When darkness put
an end to the conflict no more runs had
been recorded, and few additional hits
had been made. Atz by beautiful effort
robbed Meeks of a hit, and Cargo treated
Garvin similarly in the sixth Wordsworth
made a beautiful running one handed
catch of Phillips fly to short center in
the eighth and so the game rocked on
| In the ninth the Pelicans made a great
rally and due to the single moment of
neglect by Wilhelm. filled the bases.
When two We're down Brouthers hit safe
to right, Then Wilhelm found the ball