The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-09
Games T bday.
Birmingham in Montgomery
Atlanta in Nashville.

Birmingham in Montgomery
Atlanta in Nashville.
The lusty Barons, in theurAhght for the
pennant, took another doutue 4headeT from
Atlanta yesterday afternoo n. The scores
of the games were, Birmin CHAM "A, At
lanta 80
The first contest was a rough land tum-
BILE affair, in which there was considerable
hitting, several errors, and ms t1Ey uniscues,
all of which was stopped With several
spectacular plays, and a geneTall coming
and going of brillance
The second was chara cterzed by the ex-
cellence of the pitching of "Rulbe'' Zeller,
who until the coming of the seventh in
ming, allowed the Barons no hit, and kept
his bases entirely free of the local. players.
:" The Teams Separate
In the first contest. Clark and Sparks
were the opposing twirlers, white Raglan
and Zeler fought out the second. The
first went for 'ten innings, and was won
when Walters iscored from second, when
the ball that Archer threw to intercept
him earomed into center field.
After the conclusion of the presents series
of four games. an of which were wt,n by
the locals Billy Smith led his crippled
and mangled., and poorly managed aggre-
CATION back to Piedmont Today the
first engagement with the Firms Will be
fought out, and ,the Fremen will begin
to approach that plane from which the
Barons dropped them.
This morning. the ,Barons will leave over
the Louisville and Nashville for Mont
gomery, where the Pretzels will he en-
countered in five games, two Of which
were postponed onGprevious visits.
The Barons last evening We're insexcel-
lent spirits, tine quartette OF victories
causing them mulch happiness. They We're
confident of making an excellent showing
in Montgomery. The Barons are playing
a hard, uphill game, with two valuable
men missing. and they believe that their
efforts will bereIvarded by ripe harvest
of won games There will be a single
struggle today TOMORROW and Saturday
according to the dope exuding from, the
Pretzes burg, ,double-headers will be
played
The Wrist Game.
"Ginger'' Clark was hit hard in two
innings of his game yesterday, the fifth
and the eighth. InNhe fifth, the visitors
scored two runs. andl in the eighth by the
Intervention of good luck, only one tally
was showed across. Previous to the fifth,
Clark had yielded but two hits, and these
were excellently scattered
Archer, first up in theAhfth, drew an in
field hit. Hoffman wasAhit by a pitched
ball, and the runners advanced to third
and second on a wild pitch. Wallace
flied out TO Walters. and Sparks surprised
the fans by hitting safe 10 left center
Archer and Hoffman talliedaIn the eighth,
with Sparks down. Crozier esngled. Jor-
dan hit to safe territory, butt was thrown
out at first by Garvin. Crozier advancing
20 second From second the leet-footed
Dick ran home on a double by "Ginger"
George Winters. This ended the scoring
of the visitors.
In the fifth. the Barons registered their
first tally. Galvin led off with a single,
was neatly sacrificed by Matthews. and
scored on a long single to right center by
"Ginger'' Clark. Thus it is seen THAI the
pitchers were accountable for the first
scoring of both sides
Two runs were made in the SIXTH when
the Barons hit Sparks and We're aided by
sacrifices and errors. Montgomery was
given base on balls and scored from
first on Meeks' double Gear and Walters
Sacrificed in succession, which resulted in
Y Aleeks crossing the rubber, and Walters
WAS safe on Sparks error.
The winning run of the game was not
nade until the tenth inning had come.
After two were down. Lew Walters drew
n pass. Instantly he darted for the key
stone. and instantly Archer threw to in
tercept him. There was whirlwind OF
dust and out of it Walters was seen COM
ing with the rapidity of race horse.
He touched third lightly and made down
the home stretch, the fans holding their
breath in excitement. Walters tailed, his
niece of daring, rapidly and splenddly
executed. resulted in the final and WIN
ming run of the game
Archer had thrown the ball badly to
Sid smith and when it was checked Gro
zier was holding 1t in short left center
The Second Game.
"Rube" Zelller had the Barons at his
mercy. For the first six innings the one
two, three order prevailed, no Baron
drawing a hit, and none of them receiving
the courtesy of transportation
In the meantime the visitors had sailed