The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-13
Games Today.

Memphis 1, Little Rock O.
 New Orleans l. Shreveport Q.
 Games Today.
 Birmingham in Nashville
 Atlanta in Montgomery.
 Shreveport in New Orleans
 Little Rock in Memphis.
 Nashville July 12.-(Special.) 1.-The Nash vile Boosters we should say had bad day of it today.
 Playing double-he with Dad" vaughns 1906 Champions. and, who by the way are hitting the pike at a great clip just now. J. Dobbs and company were slaughtered unmercifully in one game, score 10 to 2 In the concluding battle an- other struggle was fought out to a tie, darkness ending the matinee with five run chalked to the credit of each team. Thursday it was two and two for twelve innings. Today the squads went eleven, it being long after the supper hour when the umpire stopped play.
 Birmingham won the first through abil- ity to hit. The Barons jumped on MT. Yerkes in three rounds for six swats and this batting bee with the very rank errors behind him sent four men from the sla6- pile over the circuit iE the third. The ertswhile bison retired after this spasm and Clarance Nelson was sent to the hurl- ing hill.
 The Texas leaguer galloped along well enough until the sixth inning was reached, when bombardment began. The cppo- nents merely knocked the hide off of the sphere, a total of six safeties, netting as many runs, a lead the Boosters had no opportunity to overcome It was de- cided by Messrs. Dobbs and Vaughn to call the affair so as to allow the teams L. begin the second. Play ended after the seventh. Rip Ragau was the slabman who handed the Boosters d big, juicy lemon in the first He was very much on to the job in all but the sixth inning, when four binges netted the only Nash vile runs.
 Lucky Bill SorrelI
 Bill Sorrell pitched the second game for Nashville and he was right there. He more than did his part dumb playing alone causing the battle to go to a tie Turner was selected to bring home tEe goods for Vaughn He was wild, very much so from the very start. Lack of control alone gave Nashville the first four runs. Birmingham made hers through poor fielding, Persons making one rank error in center that sent over two.
 From the third round on, however, the game was beautiful one to watch. When Birmingham had secured her final run in the sixth Vaughn decided to send Turner to the bushes Wilhelm was called into the fray and the veteran had a splitter that the Boosters could not solve until the very last chance presented itself
 If n mi mi ba Ja feat was prevented. The score was Go against the locals. Lister opened thc round. Two strikes were called on him. Wilhelm used a splitter but he could not fool the fast first baseman, who smashed the ball to the dump, taking two bases. Hardy followed, hitting q fly to right He was out, but Lister made a great sprint to third, and despite a beautiful throw he beat the bah 10 the last corner Bill 5orrell was next in line. Manager Dobbs at first started to let Elmer Duggan bat for him, but at the last moment conclud- ed to let Bill use the willow. It was a good thing he did, for Sorrell hit a hot one past Wilhelm to center and Lister tailed with the score that cut off another Bh - mngham victory.
 But for a dumb play on the part of Garvin in the eleventh the Barons would have won. He hit one past McElveen, go- ing to first. Wilhelm was up and he sent a clean drive far up the summer street bank. Garvin was away in jiffy. but Mccormick using his head, calling for Doe" to throw him the ball This was bluff as Wiseman had never recovered the sphere After hesitating, Garvln de- cided to go on to third, but his start was made too late for Wiseman relayed the ball to Mccormick who threw Garvin out at the last corner. The Baron catcher had ample time to make the third corner, and had he kept his eyes open would hay 0 scored when Molesworth hit a long fly to center. This poor base running alone caused the second game to go to a tie.
 Yearkes-Nelso Easy.
 Birmingham pounded Yerkes and Nelson for thirteen hits in the first, while Ragan gave up but six, four of which were made by the locals in the sixth inning. Four er- TOTS were made by Nashville against one for the visitors. In the last game the Boosters outhit the visitors. the swats standing ten to eight. Five were for two sacks and two for three. The Barons were busy with the stick at the very start, but it was the third before runs started to roll in. After Ragan was down, Molesworth and Demont singled Smith followed and hit one to second Nichols allowing the ball to pass. Moles- worth scored Doc" Wiseman's error in muffing Gardners fly scored Demont A wild pitch by Yerkes allowed Smith tO complete, Gardner making the final run of this spasm on Meeks bngle to right. Nashville's runs in the sixth were made on singles by Ha. dy, Persons, Dobbs and Mccormick, Hardy and Persons scoring. It was simply a case of how many runs the Barons would make in the seventh. After the sixth went over. they slowed down. Had they continued the swat fest they might have been playing yet. for they connected with Nelson's benders without much effort.
 Turner's Wildness Lost.
 Both clubs were out for runs early Tn the second game, each getting four in three innings. Turner was very wild and the four bases balls issued by him, sailowed by timely hits, netted Nashville