The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-05

Little Rock at Nashville.
Memphis at Atlanta.
New Orleans at Montgomery.
On little white shoes and peek-a-boo
waists on baseball fanatics and pitchers
arms, yesterday was hard day.
All of the hand maids of old Jupiter
Pluvius, at a preconceived signal, opened
wide the gates and portals of the old
mans kingdom, with the result that
flood covered the ground, and swept away
all of the footsteps and ear marks of the
games of the previous day.
1t is unquestionably true that the down
fall saved the Gilkites from another de-
feat for Little Eva" Wilhelm had every
thing in his good right arm from a spit
was played, for Immediately after Shreve-
port had had its half of the second the
rain was falling SO promiscuously that to
continue was impossible.
Pfenninger, thereupon, called time.
The game was ended.
Wading the Seas.
In spite of the fact that Bobbie Gilks
and his men were saved from the sacrifice,
the afternoon was far from featureless.
The manner in which the fans in ordinary
brogan, and white and pink shoees. man
aged to cross the sea of water that spread
from the park exit across the four-block
walk to the stopping place of the Biz
mingham Railway, Light and Power COM
pany's cars, disproved the old adage that
there is nothing new under the sun.
The deluge, backed up and morally sup
ported by cloud that frowned and
completely flooded the ground
for miles around. AS is well known,
there is a single exit from the park, and
a narrow. little, dilapidated alley leading
therefrom This little alley was COM
pletely flooded, the water rising so high
that swimming was permissible in several
spots, and wading necessity in all. The
sight of several hundred fanatics in ordi-
nary brogans and shoes pink and white,
crowding through the narrow exit, and
splashing headlong through the shallower
places until the deeper ones caused a
halt, and moments CONSERVATION, would
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been at the time, such serious PROPOSE
ton.
How to get through with the pink and
white shoes was the question. The heav-
Ter leather could care for itself
Enchantress Appears.
Unlike the good fairy in the stories told
by Grim In his fairy book, the enchant-
ress who solved the proposition and imi-
tated Moses when the Israelites hesitated
on the Drinks of the Red Sea, had no won
derful wings. nor did she daintily bear
aloft dlstaff, nor a wand
But she solved the proposition. just the
same.
As all alleys, this leading from the ball
park is bordered on either side by fence
of disputed ownership. AS fortune would
have 1t, the fence was not a solid and
compact wall. but one of those easily
climbed; so arranged that a toe could
slip between the rails.
The fairy in this case hesitated but a
moment and then slipped the toe in the
first rail, then in the second, until the
top was reached. From that precarious
position. she gradually and really grace
fully, considering the numerous discom-
futures that hung about, moved onward.
Then her scheme was laid bare, and a
shout arose from those who dreamed
themselves doomed. A single moment
elapsed before the fence was grooming
and sweating beneath the load that 1t
bore.
But the fans were saved, even If the
shoes pink and white, and the ordinary
brogans, were soiled.
1t was hard day on the peek-a-boos.
A Peppery Start.
The game was started in rush. The
Barons were so crammed full of pepper
that they popped and sizzled Wilhelm
was prepared to hand across the coun-
ter his rarest assortment of curves and
benders including new razzle-dazzle on
which he has obtained a patent
The first man who faced him was bad
Bill Evans The first ball thrown in the
direction of Harry Matthews was pasted
to the infield. the bat when II met the
sphere handing back that kind of smack
which suggested a safety. However. Cas-
tro felded the ball perfectly and in a
manner spectacular. His throw was wild
and BILLY the Bad" wrote his name on
the first stop in the diamond pilgrimage.
Kennedy hit to Wilhelm. and the pitcher.
when Matthews screamed across the dia-
mond hurled the sphere to Castro like a
shot. Thus Evans was killed, and Ken
nedy left to first. Absten and Daley
retired the side. the first bounding to
Meeks and the second flying TO the same
big fellow with the Sunshine face.
Wordsworth met the ball that Becker
threw in his direction. but made the mis-
take of hitting to right. Fisher made an
easy out of 1t. Smith sent one down to
Evans, who failed to err. the result be-
ing that Carlos did not stand on first.
Montgomery was there with the goods.
however, and his effort resulted in the
first and only safe swat of the evening.
With Meeks at the stick, Montgomery
figured that he could score from second
Thereupon, without any more ado, Roy
started for the keystone and got there
in spite of Catcher Powell's efforts Beck
err grew wise to the little scheme. how
ever, and handed smiling all the time,
a free passage to the big fellow with the
smile. Gear. on account of the gathering
darkness. hit to pitcher, the result being
that no scores were made.
In the second inning. King. Hess and
Fisher went out in succession, the first by
Castro to Meeks. the third on a fiy-out to
to Molesworth. and the second "ozoning"
the ball that spelled his doom being one
of those which ambled along until the
plate was reached. and then dropped
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