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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-03

Umpire shuster is the worst that ever
tried to preside over a ball ground in
the Southern league" was one of the
first comments Big Harry Vaughn had
to make yesterday afternoon after he un-
loaded from the train at the union pas
senger station. II haven't kicked much
this year, and have not said anything
against umpires or any one in fact, but
honestly, Shuster was a regular highway
robber when he took that second game
from us in Memphis by putting Clarke
Walters and Castro out. I was Just hop
ing that he would be sent to Birmingham
for one game so that the fans here could
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VAUGHN DID NOT LIKE
UMPIRING IN MEMPHIS

we were entitled to the second game
in Memphis, but when the umpire had
his inning and when 1t was all over he
had won, and incidentally Charlie Babb
had annexed a game to which he was
not entitled.
I'VE are to have a couple of good UNI
pires here during our stay at home. Pres
ident Kavanaugh told me in Little Rock
that he would send Pfenninger and Rud-
derham here for the two weeks, one for
the first two series and the other for the
last two. l am glad we are getting these
two men for we will have some good UNI
piring on our last series and we are en-
titled to It,"
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hard as we have been playing during the
portion of the season past
AS the people here already know we
have secured three players from the Cot
ton States league, but I understand that
woodruff has been drafted by one of
the clubs in the big league. If that is
true I guess that we will not get him.
unless we paid our purchase money a
specified length of time before drafting
season. will have to find out about that.
las far as the Castro matter Is con-
cerned, he belongs to Birmingham, and
am sorry that there was SO much agita-
ton about the deal. He has been playing
great ball for us on the road
"Ragan and Wilhelm will work in the
two games today. The morning game
commences at 1890 o'clock and the after
noon game at the regular hour. We are
expecting a great crowd"
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SHOOTERS HAVE REST.
important Work at Seagirt Will Be-
gin This Week.

Seagirt. n. j., September 2.-The rifle
men representing forty-three states of
the union. District of Columbia, and the
army, navy and marine corps. rested
today after a week of hard work prepar-
atory to the important matches of the
next few days.
The second and most important week
of the tournament will begin with the
Presidents match at o'clock tomorrow
morning. The match is for the individual
military championship of the United
States by authority of the President.
The national team match the big event
OF the year will be in order Tuesday and
Wednesday, and the national individual
match and the national pistol match
Thursday.
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RECORDS
MADE AND BROKEN
Old Providence Team Holds Re-
cord for Successive Victories
WON 20 STRAIGHT GAMES
Rodbourne Made a Record in These
Contests That Will Probably
Never BE Equalled in
Baseball.

This has been a reeord-brealNing sea
son for the American league in more ways
than one, says Sporting Life. 1t has been
blessed with an uneA Jailed attendance
and has enjoyed the most remarkable
major league race on record inasmueh
as six out of eight teanN have been in
the tight all season, and even at this
late day five teams are still pennant pos
sibilties. TO cap all this race has fur
nished two sensational eyents-frst, a
record of twenty consecutive defeats for
an erstwhile two-tlme champion team;
second, an American league record of
consecutive victories, and that, too, by a
team heretofore regarded by all expert
opinion as nothing more than bare
championship possibility.
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August z, at Chicago-chicago 3, New
York O.
August 18. at ehieago-ehicago 0, New
York o.
August Is. at Boston-chicago g. Bos-
ton 0.
August 49, at Boston--Chicago g. Bos-
ton l.
August Il at Boston-chicago 4. Bos-
ton 8.
August Is. at New York-chioago 10.
New York o.
August 20. at New York-Chicago 4, New
York 1.
August %, at New Yorx-chicago 6, New
York /.
August %. at New York-Chieago Il.
New York 6.
August %. at Neutrality-suspicious. 4.
Washington l.
The Washington team on August % stop
ped Chicago at nineteen straight, thus
blasting the hopes of a new major league
record after twenty-five years of diamond
battles. It was the irony of fate that the
pitcher most largely instrumental in Chi
Cages run of victories, Edward Walsh.
should be the one to figure in the defeat
which dspeled the charm The long run
was marked by many close and brilliant
pitchers battles-the White Sox resem-
bling closely the old Providence team in
style and quality. each depending upon
good pitching fast fielding and good base
running rather than batting for success.
Should Chicago win the American league
pennant this year the analogy to the old
Providence team will be carried still fus-
tl'er, as the latter was the only National
League team to win championship with
out the aid of good batting
Some Modern Pitching.
In the Chicago run of nineteen victories
the White Sox held their opponents to
twenty-four runs and 11S hits-an average
Of less than two runs and six hits per
game-dloquent testimony to the modern
dominance of the pitcher and the effec-
tiveness of the foul-strike rule. In the
nineteen games there were eight shut
outs, five one-run, three two-run, one
three-run, one four-run and one six-run
games. Walsh made the pitching record
of the series with seven victories, in which
he scored five shut-outs, three one-run
games and allowed but thirty-fve hits.
White pitched five games-one shut-out,
oneeone-run. two two-run games. yielding
thrry-five lrits Patterson pitched one
one-run and two shut-out games with
nineteen hits. Owen pitched one one-run,
one two-run and one sx-run game chat
being the most runs scored in any one
game against Chicago) with twenty hits.
Altrox won one game in which he relieved
Patterson ana w mite Won one game III
which NE supplanted Owen; in the other
seventeen games the pitcher that started
pitched the game out.
The Worlds Record.
The above records are for major leagues
only. world s record was first made by
the Houston club, of the Texas league, in
1900 with twenty-four straight victories.
In June 1902 the Charlotte team OF the
North Carolina league made a run of
twenty-five consecutive victories, but later
I'm the same year the Corsicana club of
the Texas league surpassed this with
twenty-seven consecutive victories, and
this stands today as the worlds record
for modern organized ball.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE.
STANDING.
st. Louis 1, Detroit o.

st. Louis, September 2.-The Browns
beat the Detroit team today In the sixth
inning Hemphill batting in the face of Il
severe windstorm landed the ball against
the center field fence for home run. An
instant later the storm broke, flooding
the field and making play impossible
Score: r. HE.
st. Louis ...,..........'',- ..oW VII
Detroit .....................00 600 600
Batteries: Petty and CsConnor; Donovan
and Payne. Time, 1:1O. Umpires, Powell
and Qugley.
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.

At Louisville First game. Louisville IL.
Indianapolis 10.
Second Game Louisville a. Indian
apolls 2.
At Milwaukee: Minneapolis Milwaukee
postponed, rain.
At Columbus: Columbus l. Toledo 0.
At Kansas City: First game, st. Paul A.
Kansas City 8.
Second Game: St Paul 5. Kansas City 8.
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and of the commercial life affecting this
city. Besides being well known in this
city and section, they are all men of
extensive influence and when their plans
are fully matured can easily interest cap
ital in this splendid business enterprise.
it being understood that there is abundant
outside capital behind them.
Admission stands very much in need of
the building of this proposed road. In fact,
no other line could now be projected
which offers more to this city. The coun-
ties of Clay, Cleburne and Randolph.
which this road would bisect, are exceed
ingly rich in minerals, timber and agri-
cultural wealth. 1t is well known that
no other section of the south has such
great storehouses of undeveloped riches.
This is so well recognized and such is
the great desire to reach this section,
that two lines of railroad are already be-
ing built into 1t from other cities. But
this Is naturally Admission territory. The
people IN these counties have traded in
oxford half a century, and for twenty
years have been large patrons of Annis-
ton merchants. If this road is constructed
not only will this trade continue here and
increase very materially with each sue
ceeGinR year, but the town will gain much
from mole distant points In Alabama
and Georgia. This road must be construct
ed or The trade will be diverted to other
towns and Admission will lose its legiti-
mate hold upon the good people in those
counties. But the incorporators of the
road are fully cognizant of all these con-
dtlons. They are possessed with great
desire for the growth of Admission and
the development of the contiguous ter
ritory and will push this great project,
which means so much to all Northeast
Alabama, to a successful termination.
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BRIDGE CARS NOTICE.

Beginning Tuesday, Septem-
Der 4, and continuing until fur
ther notice, all cars now using
the Twenty second st. bridge
will come in and go out by way
of Twentieth ST., while the
Twenty-second st. bridge is be-
ing put in repairs.
Bham. Ry.. 1t. & Pr. Co.
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PRLICANS BREAK
EVEN WITH ATLANTA
TELLER WAS HAMMERED ALL
OVER LOT IN FIRST GAME AND
NEW ORLEANS WoN-5RElTEN
STEIN EFFECTIVE IN SECOND.

New Orleans. September ATLANTA and
New Orleans broke even In a double
header today which wound up the base
ball season for this city. In the first
game zeller was hammered all over the
place, and defeated to 1. In the second
game Breitenstein was not effective and
Atlanta won by to 2, errors aiding in
the victory. Guese pitched great ball.
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ST. Louis 5, Chicago 2.

Chicago, September 2.-Chicago's win
ming streak was broken by the St. Louis
team today. Chicago could do nothing
with Beebe when hits were needed. Score
R.H.E.
Chicago. 49,. ....... 900 DOL 1902
St Louis ........ 010 220 OOO-5 l
Batteries: Pfeister, Reulbach and Mo-
ran; Beebe and Noonan. Time, 1:55. UNI
pires Lundgren and Karger.
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The Major League Record.

Up to this season the major league
record of consecutive victories was twen-
ty-made by the champion Providence
team of the National league in 1884, this
standing unrivaled for twenty-five years.
Twice the record was endangered, but
each time the attempt fell short two
games Baltimore winning eighteen
straight in 1894, and New York winning
the same number in 1904. In the Ameri-
can leagues five years of expansion these
figures have never been approached, the
best performance being New Yorks
twelve straight in 1905. Following is the
great long-standing record of the Provi-
dence team:
August L at New York-Providence 4.
New York @
August s. at delphia-Providenc
6, Philadelphia 0.
August 8, at Observation-Disclosures 1, Bos-
ton 0.
August II, at MISUNDERSTANDING 8.
Boston l.
August y. at Observation-Disclosures A, Bos-
ton 0.
August A. at Providence /,
Boston 0.
August 49, at Providenee-Provide 3,
Cleveland 2.
August 49, at Provldence-ProYidenc 4,
Detroit 2.
August 90 at Providence 5,
Detroit 2.
August q, at Observation-Disclosures
5, Chicago 8.
August 49, at ProyiGence-Provide I.
Chicago 3.
August 27, at Observation-Disclosures 8,
Chicago 3.
August 2S at Observation-Disclosures 6,
Chicago 1.
August 20, at northumberland 7,
Detroit /.
August 80, at Provdence-Providen 6,
Detroit 5.
September 2, at Observation-Disclosures
4, Buffalo 0.
September 3, at MISUNDERSTANDING
TO- Buffalo 1.
September 4, at OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
8, Cleveland ].
September 5. at Providence-Providence
5, Cleveland 4.
September G, at Observation-Disclosures
3, Cleveland 0.
Buffalo on September . cut the string
by defeating Providence to 0, but Provi-
dence came right back with eight more
consecutive victories. In the twenty
straight victories Providence scored 1903
runs to So. and six times shut out it's OPP
ponents-a difficult task in the days when
there was no foul-strlke rule to aid the
pitchers.
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Crozier Atz. Smith. Three base hits, Fox
Sacrifice hits Crozier, Atz. Double plays
Hoffman to Jordan to Fox; Breitenstein
to Atz to O'Brien. Struck out, by Breiten-
stein 2, Sparks q Base on balls by
Breitenstein l, Sparks q Hit by pitched
ball. Blake Knoll. Left on bases. New
Orleans 6, Atlanta g. First base on errors,
New Orleans 0, Atlanta g. Time, LOS.
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BASEBALL
Today
TWO GAMES
Birmingham
VS..
Shreveport
First Game Called at 1870 am.
FOOD FOR FANS.

Shreveport arrives this morning and To-
day plays the Barons under the Stag pile.
This is the last series of the followers OF
GilSs this season, and they are scheduled
to play four game.
The Pirates are scheduled to play two
games today. one this morning at 1880
o'clock and the other this afternoon at
o'clock. There Is one postponed game TO
be played if Manager Vaughn thinks
best This will be played wednesday ait
ernoon If the conditions are favorable,
otherwise It win not be played at all.
The team has had a pretty hard road
tl4p and encountered much hot weather.
and Manager Vaughn does not want TO
make them play any double-headers unless
It is necessary.
It's not asking too much of the Barons
when the fans request that they take
three out of the four scheduled games.
Tom Fisher certainly established rec
ord all right. He eclipsed Wilhelm in one
thing only, however. He struck out fifteen
men while Wilhelm did not reach any
thing like that number of strikeouts.
Otherwise the games were very similar.
Both pitchers were twirling against Mont
gomery and neither pitcher allowed hit,
bnse on balls, or n run. Neither the Ba-
rons or the Pirates made an error behind
their pitchers on these notable occasions.
Saturday was a day of great games of
one kind or another. anyway. Sallee and
Ginger Clarke, coupled together In a
houble-header, pitched record ball. Neither
gave a base on balls and only four hits
were made in the eighteen innings off
them Both shut out the Travellers.
In the big leagues Boston and Philadel-
phia were playing a 24-inning game, the
longest on record by the big league
teams.
The management has taken every pre-
caution to handle the crowd at the ball
park this morning and this afternoon. A
record breaking Labor Day attendance Is
expected, and the grounds will be roped
off to keep the crowd back.
The team has returned from the road
at the top of the column and after sue
cessful trip. and 1t deserves the most lib
era1 patronage of any team In the league,
and it will doubtless get It.
Memphis and Atlanta meet this week
for a clash that promises to be one of the
hottest the league has seen this year.
The two teams are fighting for second
place. and Memphis visits Atlanta today.
tomorrow and Wednesday. The fur Will
fly when they get together and its an
even bet which will win.
Atlanta recently paved a visit to Mem
phs and took four out of five games
from the Babbites on their own ground.
Now Babb is going to Atlanta vowing
vengeance. On this series probably de-
ponds second place.
And then again, the team that Is in Sec
ond place may have chance to make
fight for the flag. Should anything happen
to the Barons so that they lost number
of games the team in second place might
have a chance to land the rag But the
chance would be mighty slim.
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Shelby.

Columbiana. September 2.-tSpecial)-
The exact vote of Shelby county as cast
in the last primary is as follows: Conner
$50. Cunningham 274, Gray l54. Meador 224,
o'Neal s22. CARRIER $50, Brandon s59, Hood
It's, Smith LAG. Julian AIS. McGhee 15s.
Sorsby Sc. Allen 166, Seed 513. Gunnels
6i6. Adams 50. Crook 1874. Lovett e. Sell
den IS, Ward q. Wilkinson Ss9. Crompton
1903, Harris 431, Henderson POI. Lowe 80.
McElderry 27O Skeggs 1o4. White So, Ty-
son 1856. Weakley 800, Bilbro PCS. Coleman
346, Dowdell 416, Mcclellan 22S Parks 40.
Morgan 500. Pettus 67s. Bankhead 34l,
Clark 1oO Fits SO. Johnston 272, Knox 1893,
Oates 147, Stallings 81, Clark 81, Craig Gil.
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Summary: Two bast hits, Babb, Nadeau,
Tibbetts Stolen bases, Loucks Base on
balls, off Duggan 2 off Loucks 2. Struck
out by Loueks I. Hit by pitcher Hurl-
burt. Sacrifice hits. Nichols. Smith. Dou-
BILE PLAYS, Nichols to Smith to Carey,
Smith to Nichols to Carey. Wiseman to
Bohannon to Frary. Time lao. Umpires,
Shuster and Pfenninger.
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UnequalIed pitching Record.

In this twenty-game string that won
derful pitcher Radbourne made a record
which will probably never be equalled.
He pitched in eighteen of the twenty vic
tories the other two games being won
by youngster named Conley. This lad
pitched the games of August and 20
the second and ninth victories During
the remainder of the run Radbourne went
in day after day, always lnVineible In
four successive games-August 9-15-he
pitched three shut-outs against Boston,
and In the four games he yielded only
one run and seventeen hits. In the en-
tire run he scored five shut-outs, four
one-run games, two two-run games, three
three-run games two four-run games and
one five-run game-this being the highest
number of runs made in a game In his
eighteen victories Radbourne yielded
double figures in base hits but twice.
Twice he held opponents to two hits once
to three hits. once to four hits, thrice
to five hits, four time to six hits. twice
to seven hits, twice to eight hits and once
each to g. 10 and II hits.
But this was not all. Radbourne's first
defeat after eighteen straight victories
was by 2 to at the hands of Buffalo,
In which he yielded only five hits. while
but four hits were made behind him.
Radbourne then resumed his victory habit
and from September 10 to September 10 he
pitched eight more successive Victories
In which he yielded only twenty-five runs
and fifty-nine hits-an average of a frac-
ton over two runs and seven hits per
game. This made a total of twenty-six
victories In twenty-seven games pitched
from August to September 1S-a per-
Torrance never equalled for skill and en-
durance, never duplicated since and never
likely to be. BY this time Providence had
the pennant won and thereafter Rad
|, bourne pitched only eight more games.
of which he won five, winding up with a
five-hit shut-out game against Phladel-
phia on October 1S 1884. Inst that cal
culated to make modern pitchers gasp?
American League Record.
Comes now the Chicago club. of the
American league. with a new record for
that organzation-within one game Of
equalling the long standing one of Provi-
dence. The Chicago clubs nineteen
straigt is a new record only for the Amer
lean league, and not for all major leagues
under organized ball. Upon return home,
over a month ago, from the rather dis
astrous second eastern trip. the White SoX
began the wonderful squirt which not only
landed them in first place, but establish
ed the new record. They won sixteen out
of seventeen games played at home and
then continued their victorious career
upon Eastern diamonds until the following
record was established:
August ., at Chicago-Chicago 3, Bos-
| ton 0.
August 3. At Chicago-Chicago 3, Bos-
| ton O.
August 4, at Chicago-Chicago l, Bos-
| ton O.
August 5, At Chicago-Chicago 10, Ath-
| letics 2.
August G. at Chicago I. Ath-
| letics 2.
August I. at Chicago-Chicago 4. Ath-
letics 0.
August S, at Chicago-Chicago 1. Ath-
letics 0.
August Q, at Chicaso-chicago 8, Ath-
letics 2.
August 10, at Chicago-chicago . New
York l.
August Il. at chicago-chicago 5, New
York l.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.
STANDING.
Cincinnati q. Plttsbura 2.

Cincinnati, September 2.-Long hits fig
tred largely in the victory of Cincinnati
over Pittsburg in the game today Score:
R.H.E.
Clneinnatl.. -. ... .oO2 900 20*-4 9
Pittsburg. - ... .010 O0l 000-2
Batteries: Frazer and Livingston; Lei
field and Gibson. Time, 40. Umpire Klein.
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DR.. Y. E. HOLLOWAY
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CHICAGO a. Cleveland 1

Chicago September 2,-Opportune hit
ting and clever base running, coupled
with Whites fine pitching, gave Chicago
today's game with Cleveland. Score:
r. HE.
Chicago ................0 900 col O3+-4 10 ,
Cleveland. ..... 900 900 0Ol-1 1
Batteries: White. Towne and Sullivan;
Bernhard and Bemis Time, 1:30. Umpire,
Sheridan.
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DO YOU KNOW.

The highest class of electric work.
from the installation of wires to the
manufacturing of fixtures, is done by
the
United Electric Co.
408-410 N. 10Th st.
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MEMPHIS BATTED (. DUGGAN ALL
OVER THE FIELD AND HIS SUP
PORT WAS VERY RANK-SHUT-
OUT.
STANDING.
Results Yesterday.
Games Today.

New Orleans, 90; Atlanta. 1-6.
Memphis, Il; Nashville, 0.
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Shreveport at Birmingham.
Little Rock at Nashville.
Memphis at Atlanta.
New Orleans at Montgomery.
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AtlanIa..... $50. ............VlO OOV wv
New Orleans ...... ... 403 900 20*-9
Summary: Two base hits. Hoffman.
Three base hits, OBrien. Stolen bases
Rickert, Knoll. O'Brlen, Sacrifice hits
Cargo, Blake Atz. Brouthers. Struck out,
by Guese Z, Zeller 5. Base on balls, by
Guese l. Zeller H. Hit by pitched ball.
Stratton. Wild pitch, Zeller. Left on bases,
New Orleans s. Atlanta 2. First base on
errors, New Orleans 2. Time, 1:49. Umpire
Campau
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Memphis, September 2.-The local team
outplayed the visitors at every stage of
todays game and scored an easy victory.
While E. Duggans pitching was not effec-
tive, he was given poor support. Score:
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