The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-01
Games Today.
Montgomery at Birmingham. Nashville at Atlanta.

Other defeats have come, and others will be announced sooner of later, but none of those that have gone before. nor none of those which are impending have been or can be more grewsome more in- harmonious, more rank more tlring than that of yesterday afternoon. in which the neck of the Barons was again placed beneath the foul Pretzel yoke.
 The final score of the miserable exhibi- tion, the seeing of which grew more and more painful, was to 1. the surprising feature of which is how the Barons man aged to get and retain that one Through ont the afternoon. 1t Is a question whethe" the Barons made a play that was not ordinary, and it Is certain. to a dead level certainty that all of them, as a bunch, and many of them individually. waxed rank and ranker. It was a common oc- curance for the ball to pass about the diamond, and never be caught in man ner clean and respectable. The Barons were all to the bad, and the first home series that went to the other fellows, went in a most unhealthy and ignoble fashion
 The only feature of the game was the solled playing of the Barons.
 Many Bum Notes.
 The merry lute with the pleasing string was left at home, and the one which mar rates the game of yesterday had thou sand misguided stops with q song uncouth and jarring The old instrument that for weeks and weeks told of triumphs sweet and glorious is broken into thou sand fragments and will only be mended when the Barons recover a fair portion of their lost ginger. and get into the game with more animation Many defeats have come, and it is a certainty that others only await their announcement. but none have visited the slagpile in years and years and no other will ever come, in which there Is such a lack of the spectac- ular, an dsuch an abundance of the un- gainly. For the first time this season, the fans left the grand stand before the end of the game. For the first time this season, there existed a general ennui, and general dark brown" The Barons were never in the game. and such farce was never before enacted in the presence of the royal fans of Birmingham.
 No excuse can be offered Ii was not all due to the fact that Oylers absence weakened the intield, and cast q general gloom. It cannot be said that It was all due to lhe pitching of Maxwell. for Fish CT was beaten, when he allowed two hits the less. 1t cannot be charged 10 Ragan, for he started the game well, and only lost his stout heart when his support was as nothing. It was a case of every one being to the bad. and to the bad good and stout Such another procedure will give baseball black eye of unmistakable prominence.
 Bum at the Start
 From the very beginning the narrator of the sided conflict is compelled to use obdurate adjectives, and many ex- clamation points. Houtz in the first in- ming hit to Montgomery. and Montgomery toyed with the sphere until tho runner ,had crossed the first stop. Hausen, next up in the first hit to Meeks and Meeks, attempting to retire loutz at second, threw badly to Garvin. Mullaney's hit is accountable for the first run, and Il field er's choice issued to McCann. smooth throw to the plate by Garvin, only pre- vented Hausen from scoring. Perry s transportation to the initial filled the sacks, and when Busch received Ragan's de- livery on the third rib Mullaney was compelled to come home with the second tally.
 From that point until the very end of the game the farce was continued. In the second inning Houtz led off with a clean hit He showed the Barons up when he stole second and then third in rapid sucesson remaining on the keystone just long enough to take a tieeting breath. Had Gear done his duty 1t Is probable that the runner would not have crossed the rubber even after his brilliant ef- forts But fly to left center fell from his glove and the gate to Kingdom" was stretched wide enough for a coach or a locomotive to drive through. From that inning to the eighth the gods of battle were with the Barons. for no more run uers were able to reach the rubber.
 Bum With the Stick.
 In the first inning. after two were downed, Montgomery doubled to right and scored from second on single of the juicy variety by Meeks. There was no other run getting.
 From the second to the eighth, in which the Pretzels gallantly refrained from in- creasing their lead. opportunities were offered the Barons to even up. The chance that dawned brightest was when the bases were filled with one down. An error by Hausen allowed Smith to reach first base on balls, issued to Mont aomery revived hope. There was a gen eral return of the joyful spirit when Neeks took first on being hit with the ball. But Gear caused gloom when he popped out to first and when Walters famed many of the faithful. covered their faces and left with notice not given
 In the eighth the Pretzels smothered